May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
618 pages
20h 50m
English
In this chapter, we’ve looked at JSSE and how it provides support for SSL and TLS. SSL is an important protocol because it is so ubiquitous. Since it requires only one participant in a conversation to possess a valid certificate, SSL makes it easy to send and receive secure, encrypted data in an environment with relatively few servers and many clients.
SSL is also the basis of the HTTPS protocol, the secure HTTP protocol. From an application perspective, the HTTPS protocol handler that comes with JSSE makes it simple to talk to HTTPS servers using the same code you’d use to talk to a standard HTTP server.
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