A while a go Dominik and I gave an introductory presentation about SSL at the BASTA.NET conference, a developer-oriented event held in Darmstadt twice a year. At that time there were quite some enthusiastic participants but recently we’ve also gotten some inquiries asking for the relevant materials. Although there’s no recording of the session, we’ve decided to put the slides here for those interested who didn’t make it to the talk.

“Who should have a look at the slides?” you ask, well, if you’ve been wanting to get a sense for what the idea behind SSL is, where it is used, how it is usually leveraged and what problems could arise when poorly employed, you will certainly find the slide-deck interesting. Although the session was meant to slowly get participants up to speed in matters SSL, it’s still likely that more informed folks will still find it interesting, even if just as a refresher about key and certificate formats, PKI 101, SSL stripping, secure cookies, and other topics.

Without further, here’s slide deck.

For the hungry, here are some other interesting resources we suggested to attendees willing to go a bit deeper on the topic after the talk.

– OWASP – SSL für Alle
– OWASP – Transport Layer Protection Cheat Sheet
– Mozilla – Server Side TLS

For those attending to the BASTA.NET next autumm, we’re looking forward to meeting you. But for the time being, that’s going to be pretty much it.

Thanks for reading and let us know what you think.