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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

Overview of this book

OpenVPN is a powerful, open source SSL VPN application. It can secure site-to-site connections, WiFi and enterprise-scale remote connections. While being a full-featured VPN solution, OpenVPN is easy to use and does not suffer from the complexity that characterizes other IPSec VPN implementations. It uses the secure and stable TLS/SSL mechanisms for authentication and encryption. This book is an easy introduction to this popular VPN application. After introducing the basics of security and VPN, the book moves on to cover using OpenVPN, from installing it on various platforms, through configuring basic tunnels, to more advanced features, such as using the application with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, and OpenVPN scripting. While providing only necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting plenty of examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
OpenVPN
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


We have created, imported, and exported CA certificates, client and server certificates and keys, in addition to revocation lists with the tools xca and TinyCA2. We have seen that there are many features TinyCA2 offers that are neither in the scope of easy-rsa nor available in xca. This is the reason why TinyCA2 is my favorite certificate management tool. However, all those tools use only the "toolbox" OpenSSL. If you want to read more and become a certificate professional, "man OpenSSL", then the website http://www.openssl.org is the place to go.