OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: Everything you need to know to master the intricacies of OpenVPN 2 is contained in this cookbook. Packed with recipes, tips, and tricks, it's the perfect companion for anybody wanting to build a secure virtual private network.
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- Setting up point-to-point, routed as well as bridged VPNs Determining the best type of OpenVPN set up for your networking needs Configuring OpenVPN on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X Using scripting and plugins to optimize your VPN setup Troubleshooting your VPN setup Using advanced OpenVPN techniques, such as proxy support, compression, different encryption algorithms Setting up a public key infrastructure (PKI) for use with OpenVPN, including X509 certificates, certificate revocation lists and intermediary certificate authorities Integrating a hardware security token or smart card into your VPN setup
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Jan Just Keijser is an open source professional from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has a wide range of experience in IT, ranging from providing user support, system administration, and systems programming to network programming. He has worked for various IT companies since 1989. He was an active USENET contributor in the early 1990s and has been working mainly on Unix/Linux platforms since 1995. Currently, he is employed as a senior scientific programmer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at Nikhef, the institute for subatomic physics from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). He works on multi-core and many-core computing systems and grid computing as well as smartcard applications. His open source interests include all types of virtual private networking, including IPSec, PPTP, and, of course, OpenVPN. In 2004, he discovered OpenVPN and has been using it ever since. His first book was OpenVPN 2 Cookbook by Packt Publishing in 2011, followed by Mastering OpenVPN, also by Packt Publishing, in 2015.
