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Web Security
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- Web Security
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The Grading System is intended to be used over the public network, the
Internet, for mainly online courses in a Virtual University environment,
as well as for traditional courses to provide the advantages of online
services to the local community. There are many advantages and
disadvantages of such systems.
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One of the advantages of these systems is that instructors or students
can be anywhere in the world where a communication line or a cellular
technology can reach. Instructors can evaluate student assignments over
the Net, enter the results into the database. Students, then, can see
the results online and comment on them.
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Nevertheless, during the course of such communications, a great amount of
private data is exposed over the Internet. This raises many security
problems for the both parts of a communication. Students may feel
insecure, and institutions computing systems may encounter deliberate
attacks. The NPAC Grading System provides the Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
protocol in addition to user authentication to solve these security problems.
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Secure Connections
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The Web server used by the system provides a new 128-bit SSL protocol and
supports a certified connection. To assure a secure connection, the
Grading System provides a certificate for users. Users must have Web
browsers with SSL extensions, and grant their Web browsers to accept
the System's certificate the first time they access to the system.
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References
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Netscape Security Solutions
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Remarks on Java and Internet Security
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