Cryptography Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples. OpenSSL. Introduction This guide is designed to introduce the reader to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) application-level protocol, and particularly the OpenSSL implementation of SSL. After a brief description of exactly what OpenSSL is, and what it is useful for, the guide will further illustrate the practical usage of OpenSSL in a client-server environment, and provide specific examples of applications which may benefit from OpenSSL. Finally, the guide will lead the user through example procedures required to use OpenSSL with the popular Apache Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP) server for the purpose of serving secured web pages from your Ubuntu computer.
Target Audience To properly implement the practical steps found in this guide, the reader should be a user of Ubuntu who is comfortable with the use of command-line applications, using the Bourne Again SHell (bash) environment, and editing system configuration files with their preferred text editor application. About OpenSSL About X.509. Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) (pkix) - Charter. OpenSSL: The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS. Privacy for anyone anywhere.