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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
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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