Good primer on the cryptography topic. Aimed at anybody in need of a primer on cryptography basics, especially regarding OpenSSL. By Marty Kalin.
OpenSSL is a production-grade library and toolkit popular on Linux and other systems. OpenSSL utilities are available at the command line, and programs can call functions from the OpenSSL libraries.
The article then provides:
- A quick history of OpenSSL and OpenSSL
- An HTTPS client program in C
- The hidden security pieces in the client program
- OpenSSL from the command line
The dominant layout standard for a digital certificate is X509, and a production-grade certificate is issued by a certificate authority (CA). To learn more follow link to the original article. Nice work!
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