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Securing Your Online Data Transfer with SSL

Overview This guide aims to provide an introduction to SSL security covering the basics of how it operates. A discussion of the various applications and deployment of SSL certificates is included along with details of how you may test SSL certificates on your web server. Although SSL may be used to secure server to server communications, this guide will make use of browser-server examples to explain the workings of SSL.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Thawte	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007	Downloads	977
Format	White Papers
Topics	E-commerce Security, SSL - TLS, Security Tools, Security Applications, Security Standards, Digital Signatures, Best Practices, Anti-Hacking, Security Management, Data Acquisition - ETL, Data Recovery - Security, Network Security

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