The SSL handshake protocol is what establishes a "secure session" between the user and the companies server. ... The SSL record protocol describes what encryption and the strength of that encryption to which the two servers connect. ... The merchants only need to enable SSL on their web server and get a digital certificate so they can run the secured transactions. ... Among its other functions, the SSL handshake protocol determines how the server and client negotiate which cipher suites they will use to authenticate each other, to transmit certificates, and to establish session keys...

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Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. ... According to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), any website can find out whose server and the location of the server a person used to get on the Internet, whether his computer is Windows or DOS based, and also the Internet browser that was used (Jennings and Fena 11). ...

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As can be viewed in figure 1, Firewalls are one of the most used forms of security, being used by 85% of businesses trading over the internet. 2.2 Secure Socket Layer (SSL): Hersupport.com (2000, Secure Transaction Protocols) notes that SSL provides data encryption, enables server and browser authentication, and ensures message integrity over a TCP/IP connection. ... The security system does not end at this point, as Hersupport.com (2000,STP) point out it goes on to where the client randomly generates two pairs of keys that will be used to encrypt the transmitted information, which ar...

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Cryptography is the process or skill of communicating in secret writing also known as encryption (Webster, p.475). Encryption is a method of scrambling data in some manner in expectance of data transmission (Webster, p.475). Encryption seems like a recently discovered method because of advancement...

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