OpenSSL is the cryptographic toolkit to use when you need strong, reliable encryption. It is Open Source software, which means that any errors, backdoors, or other problems get discovered and fixed in public, which gives everyone much better protection than commercial, closed crypto tools. If you are a system administrator, who needs to use OpenSSL this book will get you up to speed in the shortest amount of time possible.

This edition discusses OpenSSL tools that ship as a part of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Ubuntu ships with an excellent set of Open Source cryptographic tools whose main component is the OpenSSL library and the openssl(1) command-line interpreter. If you need reliable cryptographic tools on a Linux system, you will find them in Ubuntu. And if you need a helping hand when OpenSSL overwhelms you, OpenSSL Crypto Tools. Essential OpenSSL Crypto Skills. Ubuntu Linux Edition, 1st ed. is here to show you the shortest path to the right solution.