Network Security with OpenSSL | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Viega, Matt Messier, Pravir Chandra
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
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Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 059600270X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780596002701
ASIN: 059600270X
Publication Date: June 15, 2002
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Product Description
Most applications these days are at least somewhat network aware, but how do you protect those applications against common network security threats? Many developers are turning to OpenSSL, an open source version of SSL/TLS, which is the most widely used protocol for secure network communications. The OpenSSL library is seeing widespread adoption for web sites that require cryptographic functions to protect a broad range of sensitive information, such as credit card numbers and other financial transactions. Traditionally, getting something simple done in OpenSSL could take weeks. Network Security with OpenSSL gives you guidance to avoid pitfalls, and allows you to take advantage of the library?s advanced features. And, instead of bogging you down in the technical details of how SSL works under the hood, this book provides only the information that is necessary to use OpenSSL safely and effectively. The book details the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges.
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 If it weren't for this book, I don't know where I would be... July 29, 2008
Everything I needed to know to write code supporting certificates, multi-threading and error reporting was explained in the first five chapters. Without this book to tie together disparate facts, I probably would still be scrounging through Google hits, forums and the OpenSSL source code. At least a week of research and experimentation (non-billable hours) were saved. Highly recommended.
good for programmers February 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Contents: intro, openssl command line, PKI, then programming: support infrastructure, ssl, symmetric keys, hashes, public keys, and openSSL for Perl, Python, and PHP.
As others have noted, this is a great book for programming. It's not as detailed if you are looking to set up your own PKI. Basically it is about 30 pages of the openssl command (using symmetric keys, generating private keys, making certificates, signing them) and ~270 pages or so of programming.
SSL programming January 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was a valuable resource in implementing Secure Sockets, it would have been difficult to finish my product without it.
 SSL made Clear January 9, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I worked on a LAMP project with 'C' switching application behind it. This book clearly described what I needed and how to do it. Very good resource.
Great Book to Use When Writing an SSL app. May 28, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you have little or no experience with SSL, or OpenSSL, get this book. It explains the principles behind SSL, and then goes on to cover OpenSSL. The companion website opensslbook.com contains the latest examples.
The only drawbacks to the book are the way that the authors cover random number generators for windows, (totally excludes the MS crypto function cryptgenrand(), in favor of the Author's own entropy collection system), and the creation of certificates could have been covered a little better. I also kept having to consult the Openssl API documentation for clarification on certain things, but overall this is a great book.
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