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The fundamentals and practical use of certificate-based security in secure web-based systems
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- Robin Snyder, Winthrop University
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| Secure key exchange, public key cryptography, and symmetric key cryptography help solve the problem of achieving secure communication between two parties. But how do you know with whom you are ommunicating securely? Certificate-based security is designed to solve this problem of identifying with whom you are communicating and is gaining increasingly widespread use as a way to identify web users, web servers, certificate authorities, etc. This paper/talk will discuss/present certificates from both a user point of view and from a server point of view as a prerequisite for supporting and using secure web-based communication using SSL (secure sockets layer) on a web server. The author will show how SSL has been used since Fall 1999 for providing students with secure web-based access to obtain scores, grades, etc., and for students to submit assignments and other written work as a secure alternative to unsecure email. |
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