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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Introduction: This paper is going to discuss and compare several terms within network security. The terms to be discussed are historical and statistical logging, file security and firewalls, secret and public keys, symmetric and asymmetric keys and lastly digital certificates and digital postmarks...

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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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