Securing Data in Transit

An Introduction

7. Other Data Transfer

FTP, IRC, ICQ and other systems are often used to transfer information around computers. If your program doesn't have an option to encrypt the data, assume that it is sent as plain text.

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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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