Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Secured Socket Layer - SSL

Secured Socket Layer is a Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network.

It has 3 major componets:

The Transport Layer Protocol - Authentication, confidentiality and Integrity. Generally runs over TCP/IP

The User Authentication Protocol - Authenticates the client-side user to the server.

The connection Protocol - multiplexes the encrypted tunnel into several logical channels.  It runs over the user authentication protocol.

The SSL protocol that you should enable depends on the server configuration too.

To change the SSL Configuration in Internet Explorer : Tools - >Internet Options - > Click on Advanced Tab

                                                                                 

 

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