The O’Reilly web page for this book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/securwinserv/ ) contains information and pointers to the sources of all the free software described in this book. Precompiled versions are also available from the O’Reilly web site.
The software I use in the procedures described in this book includes:
- Cygwin
A POSIX emulation layer for Windows NT/Windows 2000.
- NTP
A GPL’d Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation.
- NTsyslog
An NT Event Log to syslog service.
- OpenSSH
A free version of the Secure Shell (SSH) suite of network connectivity tools.
- OpenSSL
An open source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general-purpose cryptography library. OpenSSH relies on the OpenSSL cryptography library.
- TCP Wrappers
A library of programs that monitor and filter incoming requests for network services linked against this library.
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
A remote console system that runs on several platforms.
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