Securing Data in Transit

An Introduction

Jennifer Vesperman (jenn@linuxchix.org)

2002-02-24

Revision History
Revision 0.1: 2002-02-17 by MEG. Converted from text file. Modified wording.
Revision 0.2: 2002-02-23 by MEG. Incorporated Jenn's changes.
Revision 0.3: 2002-02-24 by MEG. Conforming to LDP standards. Added abstract.

This article discusses ways to keep the transmission of data over the Internet private. In particular, authentication and encryption are covered.

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Securing Data in Transit
Table of Contents

0. Index
1. Introduction

• 1.1. Copyright Information
• 1.2. Overview

2. Authentication
3. Encryption

• 3.1. Private key encryption
• 3.2. Public Key encryption
• 3.3. Limitations of encryption

4. Secure HTTP
5. Secure Email
6. Secure Shell
7. Other Data Transfer
8. Final words

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