Eric, Thank you for your post. Thanks to the other people who posted their suggestions, as well. I bought "Planning for PKI" and it was very helpful. It described the contents of certificates, extensions, PKCS7 and PKCS10 clearly. -Fiel Cabral
--- Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fiel Cabral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could anyone recommend one or more books on the > > following topics: PKI,VPN,IPSec,LDAP,SCEP,OCSP? I > > looked around and found the RSA PKI book by Nash, > et. > > al. but I'm having a hard time finding more books. > For PKI, check out: > "Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide For > Deploying Public > Key Infrastructure" by Housley and Polk > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471397024/qid=1007480175/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_3_2/107-6458714-3717315 > > and > "Understanding the Public Key Infrastructure" > by Adams > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157870166X/qid=1007480252/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_14_1/107-6458714-3717315 > > I've only looked at Housley and Polk (the chairs of > PKIX) but Carlisle > Adams is an active PKIX participant and a smart guy. > > For VPN, there's > "IPsec" by Harkins and Doraswamy > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130118982/qid=1007480363/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/107-6458714-3717315 > > and > "Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and > Solutions" > by Yuan and Strayer > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201702096/qid=1007480469/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_11_3/107-6458714-3717315 > > Neither of these books is wholly satisfactory. > Harkins and Doraswamy > is old and was always a bit thin. Yuan and Strayer > is rather academic > for my taste. > > -Ekr > > -- > [Eric Rescorla > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Author of "SSL and TLS: Designing and Building > Secure Systems" > http://www.rtfm.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project > http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
