OpenSSL At 1st Sight

Introductory Series On Basic Tooling With OpenSSL

Mi'kail Eli'yah
1 min readJul 9, 2021

`OpenSSL At 1st Sight`

An introductory series on making basic tools with OpenSSL for secure data protection

PART 1: Tooling With OpenSSL
Chapter 01: Ciphering
Chapter 02: Hashing and HMAC’ing
Chapter 03: Keys and Certificates
Chapter 04: Signing And Verification With Certificates
Chapter 05: Ciphering With Certificates
Chapter 06: Attestation and Forming Trusted Cluster With Certificates
PART 2: OpenSSL In Python
Chapter 07: Ciphering, Deciphering, Hashing and HMAC’ing
Chapter 08: Keys and Certificates
Chapter 09: Secure File With Keys and Certificates
Chapter 10: Pinning Commitment
Chapter 11: Mnemonically Generated Secrets
Chapter 12: Secure Nonce
Chapter 13: Cryptographic Permits
[Appendices]
A00: Acronyms And Terminologies Used
A01: Supporting Utilities
A02: Building A Basic Secret Crypt
A03: Secrets Life Cycle
A04: Extending Tools Beyond OpenSSL
A05: A Key Note To Key Formats
Github code for the tutorial: OpenSSL at 1st Sight

Security work as far as until the point you lose control. — 2017–06.30

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