- Paperback: 197 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; illustrated edition edition (21 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471383546
- ISBN-13: 978-0471383543
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Single Sockets Layer (SSL) is the protocol developed by openly cooperating engineers at Netscape Communications and interested Web citizens in the early part of the 1990s. Slightly adapted and renamed TLS (Transport Layer Security), it lives on in its latest incarnation with a view to providing secure, reliable communications for users of electronic commerce--both vendors and customers. This brief book outlines the reasons for the development of SSL, its philosophy of operation and plenty of interesting particulars about its implementation.
The style is straightforward and will be understandable by those with little more than a nodding acquaintance with computer networking or the Internet. The terse but useful introduction to cryptography and certificate authorities sets the stage, while subsequent chapters wade deeper into the subjects such as details of message exchanges within Microsoft Server Gated Cryptography. There is a long explication of X.509 Digital Certificates which, while useful in the context of security, seems out of place when the objective of the book is to introduce SSL. A CD-ROM version of the text is bound in at the back cover.
Well illustrated (especially the introduction to cryptography) and supplemented with lots of charts and tables, SSL and TLS Essentials serves as a non-technical summary of SSL with just enough detail to whet the appetite of would-be engineers, plus an excellent follow-on bibliography for those wishing to pursue the subject further.--Wilf Hey
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"Great writing . . . a clear introduction to the most widely deployed security technology in the Internet."–Paul Lambert, former co–chair of IETF IPSEC working group
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security(TLS) protocols form the foundation for e–commerce security on the World Wide Web, verifying the authenticity of Web sites, encrypting the transfer of sensitive data, and ensuring the integrity of information exchanged. Now–for the first time the details of these critical security protocols are available in a complete, clear, and concise reference. SSL and TLS Essentials provides complete documentation of the SSL and TLS protocols, including advanced and proprietary extensions never before published. The book thoroughly covers the protocols in operation, including the contents of their messages, message formats, and the cryptographic calculations used to construct them. The text also includes an introduction to cryptography and an explanation of X.509 public key certificates. Stephen Thomas, author of IPng and the TCP/IP Protocols, presents this complex material in a clear and reader–friendly manner. The book includes more than 80 figures and illustrations to supplement its text, and it describes SSL in the context of real–world, practical applications. Readers will immediately understand not only the academic principles behind he security protocols, but how those principles apply to their own network security challenges.
The book includes:
∗ Full details of Netscape′s SSL and the IETF′s TLS protocols, with differences between the two clearl highlighted and explained
∗ A concise tutorial in cryptography
∗ Complete coverage of Netscape′s International Step–Up and Microsoft′s Server Gated Cryptography implementations
∗ A description of X.509 public key certificates
∗ Details on implementing backwards compatibility among previous versions of SSL and TLS
∗ A thorough security checklist with explanations of all known attacks on SSL implementations, along with appropriate countermeasures.
The CD–ROM contains convenient electronic versions of the book for:
∗ Windows(r) CE handheld computers
∗ Adobe(r) Acrobat Reader for PCs
Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security(TLS) protocols form the foundation for e–commerce security on the World Wide Web, verifying the authenticity of Web sites, encrypting the transfer of sensitive data, and ensuring the integrity of information exchanged. Now–for the first time the details of these critical security protocols are available in a complete, clear, and concise reference. SSL and TLS Essentials provides complete documentation of the SSL and TLS protocols, including advanced and proprietary extensions never before published. The book thoroughly covers the protocols in operation, including the contents of their messages, message formats, and the cryptographic calculations used to construct them. The text also includes an introduction to cryptography and an explanation of X.509 public key certificates. Stephen Thomas, author of IPng and the TCP/IP Protocols, presents this complex material in a clear and reader–friendly manner. The book includes more than 80 figures and illustrations to supplement its text, and it describes SSL in the context of real–world, practical applications. Readers will immediately understand not only the academic principles behind he security protocols, but how those principles apply to their own network security challenges.
The book includes:
∗ Full details of Netscape′s SSL and the IETF′s TLS protocols, with differences between the two clearl highlighted and explained
∗ A concise tutorial in cryptography
∗ Complete coverage of Netscape′s International Step–Up and Microsoft′s Server Gated Cryptography implementations
∗ A description of X.509 public key certificates
∗ Details on implementing backwards compatibility among previous versions of SSL and TLS
∗ A thorough security checklist with explanations of all known attacks on SSL implementations, along with appropriate countermeasures.
The CD–ROM contains convenient electronic versions of the book for:
∗ Windows(r) CE handheld computers
∗ Adobe(r) Acrobat Reader for PCs
Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book mainly because I wanted to do some OpenSSL
programming, and from that point of view it wasn't very useful:
it's not designed as a programmer's guide at all, and there
are no example programs, etc..
programming, and from that point of view it wasn't very useful:
it's not designed as a programmer's guide at all, and there
are no example programs, etc..
However, once I got my programs done, this book was invaluable,
as what it does contain is full and clear descriptions of the
format of all SSL messages, and with this I was able to decode
the SSL messages that were being sent between client/server
and work out exactly what was going wrong with my programs.
I haven't come across this info anywhere else, and I think the
book is worth the money just for this material alone.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone who has had to plough through a data communication's Request For Comments (RFC), such as that for TLS, will not fail to appreciate the exceptionally clear description that the author has brought to this subject. I would certainly recommend this as THE text for all those who wish to gain an understanding of the technology that protects their E-Commerce transactions.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Read this in about 2 hours, and it told me everything I needed to know. Nicely laid out in an easy to read style. A great book if you want to swot up on SSL/TLS, but it could have done with a few code samples using for example openssl.
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