Mastering TCP / IP SSL / TLS Hen - JAPANESE

by Eric Rescorla

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is used in virtually every commercial web browser and server. In this book, one of the world's leading network security experts explains how SSL works -- and gives implementers step-by-step guidance and proven design patterns for building secure systems with SSL. Eric Rescorla also provides the first in-depth introduction to Transport Layer Security (TLS), the highly anticipated, maximum-security successor to SSL. Rescorla starts by introducing SSL's how it works, and the threats it is intended to address. One step at a time, he addresses each key SSL concept and technique, including cryptography, SSL performance optimization, designing and coding, and how to work around SSL's limitations. Rescorla demonstrates TLS at work in SMTP-based Internet security applications. The book includes detailed examples of SSL/TLS implementations, with in-depth insight into the key design choices that informed them. For all network and security designers, enterprise developers, system implementers, and suppliers of Internet security products and services.

Genres: Technical, Computers, Technology

Tankobon Hardcover

First published October 27, 2000

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

The best book available on the topic, but the field's definitely screaming for a better guide (I'm working on Computandae Disciplinae Principia Laetifica for the next few years, alas =]). This ideal book would take the approach of Perlman's Interconnections, illustrating application of cryptographic methods anywhere in the stack; along with SSL/TLS and their high-level API's, IPSec and other VPN methodologies would be addressed (especially the truly awesome OpenVPN tool), along with techniques for their management and programmatic enumeration/control. Indeed, the humble libssh combined with the sophisticated technologies present in recent OpenSSH versions (look at things like the '-D' option -- we certainly didn't have it this good when I was a kid, tunneling through firewalls to school both ways!) opens up an incredible world of possibilities to the inventive systems programmer -- when shall the Word be passed down to second-tier developers, as Stevens did before us? Speaking of Stevens, a big hit to the book's applicability is Rescorla's Windows background and emphasis. I wasn't aware, Eric, that serious networking was done outside the UNIX (sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) platform, and am flummoxed by this failure to gauge your audience correctly. Every time I see "DWORD", I die a little inside.

[Ritvik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book! Incorporates the basic of SSL in a really good way!

[Jivan]

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