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Public Key encryption
This is the way I understand how the public key work...Let's say you are on a website and you access the credit card for page. You then encrypt the packet with the public key of that site and the send ...
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Does there exist a telnet-like for SSL connections?
are there any telnet-like tool that can manually debug a https connection byte by byte?
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How to easily create a SSL certificate and configure it in Apache2 in Mac OS X?
I'd like to use my Mac OS X with https for local development tests.
How can I easily make Apache2 respond to ssl, just for test proposes - I don't want a real certificate, just a fake to make local ...
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My blog, under ssl
I want to have all my content from my blog distributed in a ssl encrypted connection (meaning, I want to go https)
What are the drawbacks with respect to an unencrypted, "regular" http connection?
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Wireless Hotspot Vulnerabilities on BBC Watchdog
I watched a program on the BBC last night that highlighted the risks of using any public wireless hotspot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/29/wifi-watchdog-hotspot-security-vulnerable
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Major system wide issue regarding security certificates accessing sites and programs
I've got major system-wide issues as of about 30 minutes ago; the only thing I believe that could have caused this is after I went into sleep mode, well just before it, my PC rebooted, so I just shut ...
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What makes the address bar in IE turn green?
What aspect of a site's SSL certificate causes IE's address bar to turn green?
I'm working on a site which already uses SSL successfully, but am interested to know if there are different levels of ...
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