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Foil 46 Secure Socket Layer (4)

From Security Infrastructure fo Electronic Commerce and Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 2 and June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
1 SSL was originally designed by Netscape
2 Netscape made C-based source code available for developers (SSLRef Library): http://home.netscape.com/eng/US-Current (US government restrictions)
3 SSL is open, not proprietary protocol
4 SSL is easy to apply and use because is built in all major Web browsers (IE, Netscape) and servers
5 SSL is using S/MIME to send secure data: a user transmitting information to an SSL server from within his browser will transmit that info within a S/MIME packet)
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