Securing TCP/IP

In recent years, vendors have been busy extending and expanding their TCP/IP implementations to incorporate the security and encryption techniques discussed earlier in this hour. The following sections describe how encryption techniques are integrated into two Internet security protocol systems:

  • SSL

  • IPSec

Other public security protocols are also in development, and some security software vendors have developed their own systems. The following sections are intended to give you an idea of the kind of solutions necessary to incorporate the promise of encryption into the business of a real network.

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a collection of TCP/IP security protocols introduced by Netscape that is now on the path for ratification ...

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