Archive for the 'security' Category
Understanding SSL
21Jun08
Content for this post is taken from the book “SSL & TLS Essentials, Security the Web” written by Stephen Thomas. This post consists only the theoretical overview of the working mechanism of SSL. I will soon post another article explaining the implementations.
The Secure Sockets Layer protocol defines two different roles for the communicating parties. One [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, security | 1 Comment
Tags: Authentication, Certificate, CertificateRequest, CertificateVerify, ChangeCipherSpec, Secure Communication, SSL, TLS
Standard Java comes with a complete package for implementing state of art security. It has all the tools needed such as, Key Generator, Signature verifier, Cipher etc. This post is a continue of my previous post, where I showed how to implement RSA using BigInteger class. Here I will make use of dedicated Java libraries [...]
Filed under: Java, security | 6 Comments
Tags: java.security.KeyPair, java.security.KeyPairGenerator, javax.crypto.Cipher, Padding, RSA
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