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Foil 78 SSL and S/MIME

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 These are the web standards to enable server communications (SSL) and e-mail (S/MIME) on the internet
2 See http://home.netscape.com/info/security-doc.html ( multiple frames describing SSL S/MIME and certificates)
3 Both these mechanisms use the standard strategy of public key cryptography to initiate transfer and secret key for message transfer
4 Message transfer is 40 bit RC4 (export) and 128 bit RC4 (internal)
5 Public key cryptography is 1024 bit

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