Thanks Richard, What I am looking would be any good book which gives details about SSL communication like use of certificates, verification of certificates, APIs to examine certificates, certificate revocation concepts/SSL APIs for that, etc.
Regds, Ashok 2012/1/9 Richard Könning <richard.koenn...@ts.fujitsu.com> > Am 09.01.2012 13:10, schrieb Ashok C: > > Hi, >> >> In addition to the online material, are there any good books which we >> can refer to understand openSSL better? Both conceptually as well as >> from the API/code perspective. >> We hear of the "Network Security with OpenSSL by John Viega" as one good >> reference. But it was published in 2002. Any good new books which can be >> used? >> > > Well, the questions of the original poster weren't OpenSSL specific, but > targeted SSL/TLS in general, for this Eric Rescorla's book "SSL and TLS: > Building and Designing Secure Systems" is the better book. Sadly being from > the year 2000 it is somewhat outdated too, but nevertheless a good > introduction to SSL/TLS. For a description of the OpenSSL API afaik the > book from Viega et al. is still the most detailed book, despite being > somewhat outdated. > > For newer versions of TLS (i.e. 1.1 and beyond) one should check newer TLS > books, e.g. the ones from Joshua Davies or Rolf Oppliger. Until now i had > none of the two books in my hands so i can't you tell more about the books, > but maybe a visit at Amazon or similar book traders will give you at least > a detailed content description. > > Ciao, > Richard > > ______________________________**______________________________**__________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >
