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SSL

SSL and TLS: A Beginners Guide

This practical serves to explain the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, how they can be applied to a web application, and the requirements necessary to ...

Written by: Holly McKinley and added on May 31, 2011

Stunnel: SSLing Internet Services Easily

This paper provides a method to securely use existing clear-text protocols under SSL without any need to modify the existing software or source code. There are reasons for using Stunnel ...

Written by: Wesley Wong and added on June 22, 2011

Using SSL with Client Access Express for AS/400

The AS/400 Operating System, OS/400, supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL) since its release of V4R1. It is not until V4R4 and the release of Client Access Express that communication between ...

Written by: Unknown and added on Jan. 28, 2011

Establishing and Verifying the Stunnel SSL Encryption of Pine IMAP Email Sessions

This paper documents one method for establishing and verifying the operation of SSL encryption using Stunnel for Pine IMAP email sessions. Several technologies are introduced, and briefly explained, including IMAP ...

Written by: Christopher Ursich and added on Feb. 27, 2011

SSL Web Proxy - A Secure and Inexpensive Remote Access Implementation

Within this paper, I will outline a system that I developed using the proven technology of SSL (Secure Socket Layer), and the combination of stable, secure Open Source software with ...

Written by: David E. Culp and added on June 23, 2011

SSL - Rumours and Reality: A practical perspective on the value of SSL for protecting web servers

Obviously it's important to know who you are connected to before you start exchanging confidential information. SSL addresses this requirement very nicely by means of digital certificates, which I will ...

Written by: Charl Van Der Walt and added on Feb. 5, 2011

Email security - SSL 3.1 / TLS 1.0 deployment

Good infrastructure security relies on a layered approach, much like an onion. A good security policy must assume eventual failure of one or more security devices or policies, and therefore ...

Written by: Ian Briggs and added on Feb. 7, 2011

An Introduction to OpenSSL Part 1

This is the first article in a four-part series on OpenSSL, a library written in the C programming language that provides routines for cryptographic primitives utilized in implementing the Secure ...

Written by: Holt Sorenson and added on May 30, 2011

An Introduction to OpenSSL, Part 2: Cryptographic Functions Continued

This is the second article in a series on OpenSSL, a library written in the C programming language that provides routines for cryptographic primitives utilized in implementing the Secure Sockets ...

Written by: Holt Sorenson and added on April 1, 2011

An Introduction to OpenSSL, Part 3: PKI- Public Key Infrastructure

This is the third article in a series on OpenSSL, a library written in the C programming language that provides routines for cryptographic primitives utilized in implementing the Secure Sockets ...

Written by: Holt Sorenson and added on Feb. 11, 2011