Mastering OpenVPN: Master building and integrating secure private networks using OpenVPN

Name: Mastering OpenVPN: Master building and integrating secure private networks using OpenVPN
Rating: 3.692307710647583 (13 reviews)

Eric F Crist · Jan Just Keijser

Aug 2015 · Packt Publishing Ltd

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Master building and integrating secure private networks using OpenVPNKey Features

Book DescriptionSecurity on the internet is increasingly vital to both businesses and individuals. Encrypting network traffic using Virtual Private Networks is one method to enhance security. The internet, corporate, and “free internet” networks grow more hostile every day. OpenVPN, the most widely used open source VPN package, allows you to create a secure network across these systems, keeping your private data secure. The main advantage of using OpenVPN is its portability, which allows it to be embedded into several systems. This book is an advanced guide that will help you build secure Virtual Private Networks using OpenVPN. You will begin your journey with an exploration of OpenVPN, while discussing its modes of operation, its clients, its secret keys, and their format types. You will explore PKI: its setting up and working, PAM authentication, and MTU troubleshooting. Next, client-server mode is discussed, the most commonly used deployment model, and you will learn about the two modes of operation using "tun" and "tap" devices. The book then progresses to more advanced concepts, such as deployment scenarios in tun devices which will include integration with back-end authentication, and securing your OpenVPN server using iptables, scripting, plugins, and using OpenVPN on mobile devices and networks. Finally, you will discover the strengths and weaknesses of the current OpenVPN implementation, understand the future directions of OpenVPN, and delve into the troubleshooting techniques for OpenVPN. By the end of the book, you will be able to build secure private networks across the internet and hostile networks with confidence.What you will learn

Identify different VPN protocols (IPSec, PPTP, OpenVPN)
Build your own PKI and manage certificates
Deploy your VPN on various devices like PCs, mobile phones, tablets, and more
Differentiate between the routed and bridged network
Enhance your VPN with monitoring and logging
Authenticate against thirdparty databases like LDAP or the Unix password file
Troubleshoot an OpenVPN setup that is not performing correctly

Who this book is for

If you are familiar with TCP/IP networking and general system administration, then this book is ideal for you. Some knowledge and understanding of core elements and applications related to Virtual Private Networking is assumed.

Master building and integrating secure private networks using OpenVPNKey Features Book DescriptionSecurity on the internet is increasingly vital to both businesses and individuals. Encrypting network traffic using Virtual Private Networks is one method to enhance security. The internet, corporate...

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Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development. Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains. Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.

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.

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