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Paperback SSL and TLS Essentials: Securing the Web [With CDROM] Book

ISBN: 0471383546

ISBN13: 9780471383543

SSL & TLS Essentials: Securing the Web

"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/

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Great book for anyone who want to Use SSL & TLS

I'm new in Network programming and I'm very interested in Internet programming so, i wanted to start with some internet protocols like HTTP by Stephen Thomas "> if u r interested you should go ahead and buy this book

Excellent book for fundamentals of SSL

It has been an eye-opener for me in understanding the concepts of SSL. A must read book for people to get a head start with SSL.

Excellent book on SSL

This is currently the only book available on the subject, and fortunately it may the only one you will need !Not only does it explain the SSL protocol thoroughly but also contains invaluable sections of the X.509 certificate and ASN.1The parts I found most useful were the discussion of the differences between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0, and the discussion of international step-up certificates.

Good book on SSL

I thought this book gives a very good intro to SSL as well as getting in depth. It's organized in four parts the first being a high level overview. Each part gets more in depth until the fourth part where you actually see some of the bytes being sent across the wire. This is the only book on SSL that I've been able to find. It does not go in depth on the cryptography side, but if you need to know how the protocol works, it's a great reference. I've been working with SSL libraries for over a year and this book offered a great explanation. I've recommended it to coworkers as an intro to the technology and they've come up to speed very quickly.
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