6 Transport Layer Security
This chapter covers
- Resisting man-in-the-middle attacks
- Understanding the Transport Layer Security handshake
- Building, configuring, and running a Django web application
- Installing a public-key certificate with Gunicorn
- Securing HTTP, email, and database traffic with Transport Layer Security
In the previous chapters, I introduced you to cryptography. You learned about hashing, encryption, and digital signatures. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use Transport Layer Security (TLS), a ubiquitous secure networking protocol. This protocol is an application of data integrity, data authentication, confidentiality, and nonrepudiation.
After reading this chapter, you’ll understand how the TLS handshake and public-key ...
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