RE: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-09 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
penssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Ashok C Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 8:15 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Cc: richard.koenn...@ts.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption Thanks Richard, What I am looking would be any good book which gives det

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-09 Thread Ashok C
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 > Am 09.01.20

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-09 Thread Richard Könning
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.

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-09 Thread 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 n

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-08 Thread Ben Laurie
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hello Michael/Anyone Else, > > Can you be kind enough to please point me to some place/URL where I can get > a bit more information about how the key is negotiated upon ? > > I have gone through a a couple of write-ups on OpenSSL which throw l

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-07 Thread Matt Caswell (fr...@baggins.org)
Hi There's quite a good description of the key negotiation here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785811%28WS.10%29.aspx Matt On 07/01/12 16:12, Manish Jain wrote: Hello Michael/Anyone Else, Can you be kind enough to please point me to some place/URL where I can get a bit more

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-07 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Michael/Anyone Else, Can you be kind enough to please point me to some place/URL where I can get a bit more information about how the key is negotiated upon ? I have gone through a a couple of write-ups on OpenSSL which throw light upon everything else except for this vital piece of in

Re: Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-07 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Sat January 7 2012, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to OpenSSL and am trying to prepare some illustrative > documentation on how it works. > > AFAIK, OpenSSL uses the concept of a pair of keys per host : one is a > private key which is never communicated to any other host, and the o

Question on OpenSSL encryption

2012-01-07 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, I am new to OpenSSL and am trying to prepare some illustrative documentation on how it works. AFAIK, OpenSSL uses the concept of a pair of keys per host : one is a private key which is never communicated to any other host, and the other is a public key which is transmitted to the peer (