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The Fundamentals of SSL Certificates and Certificate Authorities (CA) By adding an SSL certificate, Experts Exchange members not only protect their business but also increase customer confidence by safely encrypting their customers’ most sensitive data. For online transactions, an SSL certificate turns sensitive data into encrypted secure code. The web browser then checks the SSL certificate to make sure that the website is legitimate. Once verified, the web browser and server processes the encoded

With the web in an uproar over privacy and encryption, the newbie webmaster might get overwhelmed with all the acronyms, technical details and server configurations. Deciphering the content on popular wikis such as Wikipedia just makes it more frustrating when descriptions get too technical. Here is a breakdown of SSL, what it can do for you, why it’s important and some simple steps to get your own website encrypted. What is SSL? SSL stands for “secured sockets layer.” Whenever you prefix

support. Public Key Infrastructures Public key infrastructure also known as PKI refers to a suite of software, hardware, people, policies and procedures needed to manage, distribute, create, store, revoke and utilize digital certificates. The use of digital certificates will help customers of Vantura Partners group in a number of ways allowing for secure e-commerce, confidential e-mail, secure banking, and Non-Repudiation for contracts. In the most secure environments where strong passwords are

allow for certificate spoofing on a Cisco ASA system. If an attacker was able to exploit this weakness on the University's cryptosystem, the said attacker could construct forged data in a variety of forms that will cause software using the MD5 algorithm to incorrectly identify it as

victim for several impersonate-based attacks. This paper proposes a new authentication mechanism for IOT called Certificate-based Identity Resolution (CIR) which tries to protect IOT terminal nodes from attacks by applying a lightweight identity resolution method and using a Local Certificate Generator in order to simplify the node authentication process. Keywords—Internet Of Things; Certificate-based Identity Resolution; Authentication; Access control I. Introduction In the last few years, the Internet

OLSR based key management in VANET networks with Predictive Preemptive Certificate Chaima BENSAID1 , BOUKLI HACENE Sofiane2 , FAROUAN Kamel mohamed3 1 2 3 Computer science department, Djillali Liabes University at Sidi bel abbes , Sidi Bel Abbes , Algeria Chaimaa184@hotmail.fr, boukli@gmail.com, kamel_mh@yahoo.fr Abstract— A VANET network is a subset of ad hoc networks where each mobile node is an intelligent vehicle equipped with communication resources (sensor). The optimal goal is that

Abstract: Continuous user authentication is a critical prevention-based methodology with protect high security mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Certificate revocation is an important security component in MANETs. A new method to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the scheme by employing a threshold based approach to restore a node’s accusation ability and to ensure sufficient normal nodes to accuse malicious nodes in MANETs. The user’s available relevant information on the system, and express

distribution of keys and digital certificates. Digital certificates are at the heart of PKI as they confirm the identity of the certificate subject and bind that identity to the public key contained in the certificate. A typical PKI includes several key elements. A trusted party, known as a certificate authority or CA, acts as the root of trust and provides services that authenticate the identity of

1. Digital Certificates Digital signature and Encryption together protects data in the internet. Digital signature is the internet ID that is given to a person to identify himself that who is and how they can be trustable. They are used together to protect the data that are confidential from the intruders and threats. A digital certificate is a file on your computer a pair, you can use it to create the digital equivalent of a handwritten signature and seal of the envelope. Each file is divided into

fosters confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation. Email clients, virtual private network (VPN) products, Web server components, and domain controllers would utilize digital certificates issued by the certificate authority (CA). Additionally, the company would use digital certificates to sign software developed by the company in order to demonstrate software authenticity to the customer. PKI supports the distribution and identification of public encryption keys, enabling