In this note, I will demonstrate how to set up a two-tier Certificate Authority (CA) using OpenSSL. The two-tier structure consists of a Root CA and an Issuing CA. I will also show how to use the ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

In this section, I will demonstrate how to build OpenSSL from source on both Windows and Linux operating systems. It is worth noting that most Unix/Linux distributions come with OpenSSL preinstalled ...

OpenSSL is a very mighty and complex tool. This page describes only few situations where this software can help requesting and using certificates. On Linux and Macintosh computers the OpenSSL software ...

OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...