To add to Perry's note, I think Eric's book is very good, and I've also been reading "Network Security with OpenSSL", an O'Reilly book by Viega, Messier, and Chandra -it's been exceedingly helpful in understanding and working with openssl.
Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I've been following the SSL thread with great interest, but the truth is I | don't know enough about SSL to add anything meaningful to the discussion. | | But this much remains true: I'm a competent programmer, and I know enough | about crypto to put together some basic algorithms (like the early PGPs I | guess). However, the complexity of the OpenSSL library has me stumped. | (Plus, it's Unix-centric. I'd like to turn it into a Visual Studio port so I | could compile without needing cygwin, gcc, etc., but that's another story). | | I'm not going to complain. That's been done to death here. Instead, I have a | different question: Where can I learn about SSL? | | As in, could someone reccommend a good book, or online tutorial, or | something, somewhere, that explains it all from pretty much first | principles, and leaves you knowing enough at the end to be able to make | sensible use of OpenSSL and similar? I don't want a "For Dummies" type book | - as I said, I'm reasonably competent - but I would really like access to a | helpful tutorial. I want to learn. So what's the best thing to go for? | | Jill | | | [Moderator's Note: Eric Rescorla (aka "Ekr") wrote an entire book on | the topic which is pretty much definitive on the general topic of | SSL/TLS. As for OpenSSL itself, as a package that changes from release | to release, only its own documentation is 100% definitive. --Perry] | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | The Cryptography Mailing List | Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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