SSL security..?
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When a site is using SSL does this mean it is safe to transfer info from the client computer(web page form) to the server to be processed(Perl, ASP whatever). Is there any additional encrypting that is usually applied to the client info before being sent...? Is this what SSL does and is used for...? "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
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When a site is using SSL does this mean it is safe to transfer info from the client computer(web page form) to the server to be processed(Perl, ASP whatever). Is there any additional encrypting that is usually applied to the client info before being sent...? Is this what SSL does and is used for...? "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
SSL = Secure Sockets Layer Essentially all data sent will be encrypted. It doesn't matter what scripting is used on the server end because the data will be decrypted before it gets to the script (i would hope so anyway :) James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Not be to confused with 'The VD Project'. Which would be a very bad pr0n flick. :-D" - Michael P Butler Jan. 18, 2002
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SSL = Secure Sockets Layer Essentially all data sent will be encrypted. It doesn't matter what scripting is used on the server end because the data will be decrypted before it gets to the script (i would hope so anyway :) James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Not be to confused with 'The VD Project'. Which would be a very bad pr0n flick. :-D" - Michael P Butler Jan. 18, 2002
So this is to say that public/private key encryption could be used(128 bit) and implemented with JScript for client-side public key encrpytion and Perl for server side private key decryption? SSL for me would cost 500$ a month from VeriSign, which i find a little high for potential start ups:) "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
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So this is to say that public/private key encryption could be used(128 bit) and implemented with JScript for client-side public key encrpytion and Perl for server side private key decryption? SSL for me would cost 500$ a month from VeriSign, which i find a little high for potential start ups:) "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
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So this is to say that public/private key encryption could be used(128 bit) and implemented with JScript for client-side public key encrpytion and Perl for server side private key decryption? SSL for me would cost 500$ a month from VeriSign, which i find a little high for potential start ups:) "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in thier field" - Niels Bohr
If you use SSL through a browser everything is handled between the browser and the server. So you won't have to encrypt anything client side, nor decrypt it on the server; The browser and the server will take care of that for you. I'm not really an expert on it though so thats about all i can tell you :-O James Sonork ID: 100.11138 - Hasaki "Not be to confused with 'The VD Project'. Which would be a very bad pr0n flick. :-D" - Michael P Butler Jan. 18, 2002