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SSL Resources
SSL Resources
You can refer to the following SSL resources for more information:
• Standard reference book is SSL and TLS by Eric Rescorla
• Wikipedia page on SSL/TLS provides a good overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLS
• openssl contains command-line tools to do the following. More information is available at: http://
www.openssl.org/
- Create/examine keys/certificates
- Act as client or server
• ssldump is a -command line tool that displays a human-readable dump of an SSL connection's
handshaking and traffic:. More information can be found at:
http://www.rtfm.com/ssldump/.
- If provided with server's private key, can decrypt data stream
- Can display decoded data stream in ASCII/hex
- Can display contents of handshaking packets (including ID certificates)