Separate HTML for Basic Foil 108 SSL and S/MIME

Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 108 SSL and S/MIME

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen

These are the web standards to enable server communications (SSL) and e-mail (S/MIME) on the internet

See http://home.netscape.com/info/security-doc.html ( multiple frames describing SSL S/MIME and certificates)

http://home.netscape.com/assist/security/ssl/ (SSL Description)
http://home.netscape.com/assist/security/ssl/howitworks.html (RSA cryptography in SSL)
http://home.netscape.com/newsref/ref/internet-security.html (mainly SSL) and http://home.netscape.com/newsref/ref/rsa.html (A tutorial)
http://home.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/ssl-toc.html (SSL3.0 definition)
http://www.consensus.com/security/ssl-talk-faq.html (SSL FAQ and URL's)

Both these mechanisms use the standard strategy of public key cryptography to initiate transfer and secret key for message transfer

Message transfer is 40 bit RC4 (export) and 128 bit RC4 (internal)

Public key cryptography is 1024 bit

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