December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
25h 57m
English
The SSL protocol does not restrict clients and servers to a single encryption brew for the secure exchange of information. There are a number of possible cryptographic ingredients, but as in any cookpot, some ingredients go better together than others. The seriously interested can refer to Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography (John Wiley & Sons, 1995), in conjunction with the SSL specification (from http://www.netscape.com/ ). The list of cipher suites is in the OpenSSL software at ... /ssl/ssl.h. The macro names give a better idea of what is meant than the text strings.
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