SSL and TLS - Designing and Building Secure Systems, Eric Rescorla, Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-61598-3.

SSL and TLS Essentials, Stephen Thomas, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000, ISBN 0-471-38354-6.

Certicom Corp., http://www.certicom.com/products, SSL library includes the Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC) in addition to the RSA Cryptosystem

International Telecommunications Union (ITU), http://www.itu.ch, Recommendation X.509. August 1997. – Information Technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory: Authentication Framework

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pkix-charter.html, Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html, Transport Layer Security Working Group

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1750.txt, Randomness Recommendations for Security (RFC 1750)

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt, TLS Protocol (RFC 2246)

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616)

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2818.txt, HTTP over TLS (RFC 2818)

Internet Engineering Task Force, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4217, Securing FTP with TLS (RFC 4217)