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The Internet and Its Protocols
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The Internet and Its Protocols

by Adrian Farrel
June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
39h 47m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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14.7 Hashing and Encryption: Algorithms and Keys
703
are prefixed with
https://and
port number 443 is used in place of the standard
HTTP port 80.
When users start to access a secure web site using HTTPS they usually see
a dialog box prompting them to accept the certificate sent from the web server.
This implies a close implementation tie-up between the HTTP engine and the
protocol stack implementing the SSL.
Securing HTTP communications allows users to build semiprivate web
sites, which lets companies provide web-based access to their corporate email
systems. This has been developed so that many ...
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ISBN: 9781558609136