SSL and TLS: A Beginners Guide

This practical serves to explain the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, how they can be applied to a web application, and the requirements necessary to create a secure link between a server and a client machine. In addition, a development history of the...

By

Holly McKinley

May 12, 2003

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