128 bit SSL is also referred to as strong SSL security. The 128 bit tells users that the size of the encryption key used to encrypt the data being passed between a web browser and web server is 128 ... View
An Internet IPsec protocol, A field that immediately follows the IP header in an IP datagram and provides authentication and integrity checking for the datagram. Also protection against replay ... View
A portable device used for authenticating a user. Authentication tokens operate by challenge/response, time-based code sequences, or other techniques. This may include paper-based lists of one-time ... View
The act of determining that a message has not been changed since leaving its point of origin. Authentication, secure authentication or secure SSL authentication of a user, is usually derived from ... View
A record containing information that can be shown to have been recently generated using the session key known only by the client and server. ... View
SSL Certificate security must be genuine and verifiable. In SSL Internet security and network security, it is imperative that authenticity is not assumed. ... View
A technology that makes it possible to identify who published a piece of software and to verify that it has not been tampered with. It also confirms that the digital certificate used to sign the code ... View
Giving access or other rights to a user, process or program that has been authorized. ... View
A list maintained by the Certificate Authority of all certificates that are revoked, but not expired. A certificate may be revoked because the user's private key is assumed to be compromised, the user ... View
A file that attests to the identity of an organization or web browser user and is used to verify that data being exchanged over a network is from the intended source. The certificate is digitally ... View
A third party organization which is used to confirm the relationship between a party to the https transaction and that party's public key. Certification authorities may be widely known and trusted ... View
The complete assessment of the technical and nontechnical security functions of a system and other safeguards that are made for the accreditation process, which establishes the degree to which a ... View
CPS is short for Certification Practice Statement. The CPS is a document published by the Certification Authority and outlines the practices and policies employed by the organization in issuing, ... View
CRL is short for Certificate Revocation List. The CRL is a digitally signed data file containing details of each digital certificate that has been revoked. The CRL can be downloaded and installed into ... View
CSR is short for Certificate Signing Request. When applying for a SSL certificate the first stage is to create a CSR on your web server. This involves telling your web server some details about your ... View
An algorithm for producing digital signatures, developed by NIST and the NSA. To sign a message, Jean uses the DSA Sign Algorithm to encode a digest of the message using her private key. For all ... View
A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standard for digital signatures, used to authenticate both a message and the signer. DSS has a security level comparable to RSA ... View
A digital signature (not to be confused with a digital certificate) is an electronic rather than a written signature. It can be used with any kind of message, whether it is encrypted or not, simply so ... View
Quite simply, the act of selling over the internet. This can either be Business to Business (B2B) or Business to Consumer (B2C). ... View
Encryption is the process of changing data into a form that can be read only by the intended receiver. To decipher the message, the receiver of the encrypted data must have the proper decryption key. ... View
A secured system passing and inspecting traffic via an internal trusted secure server network and an external secure server network that is untrusted, like the Internet. Firewalls can be used to ... View
Host headers are used by IIS as a means of serving multiple websites using the same IP address. As a SSL certificate requires a dedicated IP address host headers cannot be used with SSL. When the SSL ... View
Browsers can connect to web servers over http and over https. Connecting over https involves you entering https:// before the domain name or URL and, providing the web server has a SSL certificate, ... View
IIS is short for Internet Information Services and is Microsoft's popular web server software. ... View
A protected/private character string which is applied to authenticate an identity, which gives secure authentication and secure SSL authentication, sometimes with digital signatures and digital ... View
The key that a user keeps secret in asymmetric encryption. It can encrypt or decrypt data for a single transaction but cannot do both. ... View
Similar to "protocol" in human communication which involves a previously agreed upon set of rules for communicating in diplomatic settings. On the Internet, a protocol is an agreed upon method for ... View
The key that a user allows the world to know in asymmetric encryption. It can encrypt or decrypt data for a single transaction but cannot do both. ... View
A self signed certificate issued from a root level Certificate Authority (CA). ... View
A Web server that utilizes security protocols like SSL to encrypt and decrypt data, messages, and online payment gateways to accept credit cards, to protect them against fraud, false identification, ... View
It is possible for a web hosting company to share a single SSL certificate - this allows the same SSL certificate to be used by many websites without the need to issue individual SSL certificates to ... View
SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer. The SSL protocol was developed by Netscape and is supported by all popular web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL and Opera. For SSL to work a SSL ... View
Ordinarily the SSL handshake and subsequent encryption of data between a browser and the web server is handled by the web server itself. However for some extremely popular sites, the amount of traffic ... View
The SSL handshake is the term given to the process of the browser and web server setting up a SSL session. The SSL handshake involves the browser receiving the SSL certificate and then sending ... View
The SSL Key, also known as a Private Key, is the secret key associated with your SSL certificate and should reside securely on your web server. When you create a CSR your web server will also create a ... View
A port is the "logical connection place" where a browser will connect to a web server. The SSL port or the https port is the port that you would assign on your web server for SSL traffic. The industry ... View
SSL Proxy allows non-SSL aware applications to be secured by SSL. The SSL Proxy will add SSL support by being plugged into the connection between the browser (or client) and the web server. ... View
TLS is short for Transport Layer Security. The TLS protocol is designed to one day supersede the SSL protocol, however at present few organizations use it instead of SSL. ... View
The procedure that contrasts two levels of system explicitation for appropriate correspondence. ... View