Show HN: OpenSSL Cookbook 2nd Edition

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57 points·ivanr··6 comments

This is one of the sections of Ristic's excellent book Bulletproof SSL and TLS.

I owe him a review of it but the short version is it's great if you need to learn about SSL and TLS and great because it's entirely practical. Highly recommended.

Interesting! I just submitted my ShowHN which includes a version of OpenSSL compiled to Javascript:

https://www.minaterm.com/

It uses it as part of libssh2 to implement a ssh client.

This would be great to have as a paperback, too...

Well, actually you can, but only as part of Bulletproof SSL and TLS. OpenSSL Cookbook is Bulletproof chapters 11 and 12, plus SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices (another guide I wrote) in the appendix.

Or, you can simply print it yourself. At 94 pages, it's easily doable.

Where can I buy Bulletproof SSL and TLS?

You can get it directly from me (Feisty Duck is my small publishing business) here: https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-ssl-and-tls/ This is the best option, because you get all digital formats (PDF, EPUB, and Kindle; there's no DRM), unlimited digital updates of the same edition, and a paperback if you want it.

You can also buy it in paperback from Amazon and other online stores, but you can get the digital formats only from Feisty Duck. That said, it's possible to upgrade your paperback for a small free.

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