Building Linux Virtual Private Networks (Vpns) - Brian Hatch

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Résumé :
Building Linux Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) focuses on showing you how to get your Linux VPN up and running as quickly as possible. You will learn VPN theory and fundamentals and will master important techniques and tools needed to design and set up your VPN in a reliable, secure, and cost-effective fashion.

This book offers concise, step-by-step instructions for building VPNs based on both standard protocols (IPSec, SSL, SSH, PPTP) and popular Linux VPN solutions (VTun, cIPe, tinc). Through numerous examples and proven practices, you will gain important insights into choosing a VPN solution, installing and configuring it, setting up routing, configuring firewalls, measuring performance, and much more.

Biographie:
Oleg Kolesnikov received his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been doing research in information security at Georgia Tech and the Berkeley lob, focusing on network security, cryptography, and secure protocols.

Brian Hatch is chief hacker at Onsight, Inc. He is the lead author of the best-selling book Hacking Linux Exposed (McGraw HM) and is the co-maintainer of Stunnel, an open-source, secure SSL wrapper used around the world to encrypt cleartext protocols.

Sommaire:

• Virtual private networks
• Implementing standard VPN protocols
• Implementing nonstandard VPN protocols