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SSL Intro for techs; mini OpenSSL CA

Submitted by syscomet on Sat, 2006-10-28 17:44.Applications | Network | Operating System

Sysadmin's Basic Guide to SSL Certificates and Authorities

Intended audience: system administrators who know roughly what SSL/TLS is and can use SSH and OpenPGP products (such as GnuPG) and who now want to know more and perhaps issue local certificates. You should know what public-key cryptography is, but are not expected to be able to follow any math (no equations herein) -- this is about using the stuff, not understanding the underlaying principles. You understand that "encrypt" is scrambling and "decrypt" is descrambling.

DHCPv6 compared to DHCPv4

Submitted by syscomet on Sun, 2006-04-09 09:05.

Summary of RFC3315 and related (see bottom of message) RFCs as they relate to DHCPv4.

DHCPv4 is a bit of a mess;

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