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Foil 44 Secure Socket Layer (2)

From Security Infrastructure fo Electronic Commerce and Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 2 and June 7 99. by Roman Markowski
Case Study (SSL)
  • I want to buy the product over the Internet; I locate several online stores and choose one
  • With whom am I dealing ? Handshake phase
Client Hello (a list of cipher suites supported)
Server Hello (server selects a cipher suite)
Certificate: contains the server public key
Session Key encrypted with server public key
HTTP communication over secure channel
Client (browser)
Merchant (Server)
verification
decryption

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