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Foil 45 Secure Socket Layer (3)

From Security Infrastructure fo Electronic Commerce and Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 2 and June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
1 SSL does NOT assure me that the Merchant is authorized to accept my credit card
2 Is the conversation private ?
  • Session key is known only to my browser and the server
  • confidentiality obtained through encryption (privacy; prevents eavesdropping)
  • data integrity obtained through hashing (MD5)
  • server authentication obtained via digital certificates
  • (optional) client authentication via digital certificates
  • my credit card number can be read only by the Merchant Server
  • SSL session involves exchange certificates and keys
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