Transaction Security

• Application-level encryption

  • Browser and server shake hands and decide on encryption scheme and key
  • Data is transmitted encrypted with the key
  • They shake hands at the end.

From Web Security Sourcebook by Rubin, at al, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

This is the meaning of the filled in key on the Netscape browsers.

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