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| | SSL/TLS Protocol Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | SSL Version 3, documented in an IETF draft, provides one of the most commonly available security mechanisms on the Internet. |
 | | TLS is documented in RFC 2246 and identifies itself in the protocol version field as SSL 3.1. |
 | | X.509 certificates are used to authenticate the server, and the client can be authenticated as well, by presenting a certificate of its own, then computing a hash of all the SSL messages that have been exchanged up to a certain point, encrypting the result with its private key, and sending this to the server. |
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