What type of encryption/decryption does SSL implement? Can any of the public
domain Linux packages, or the UNIX "crypt" command be used to implement SSL
on UNIX machines?
> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:28:33 -0700 (MST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: https/ssl
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, martin reed wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if MetaCard had any planned support for the https
>> protocol, or whether this latest beta version of 2.3 can support https via
>> sockets. If this is not the case, does anyone have any pointers or other
>> information regarding ssl and https and how it works, such that it might
>> be possible to implement such a protocol into MetaCard? If I understand
>> correctly, web browsers use some sort of encryption scheme to encrypt all
>> information when sending to secure servers. Is this encryption method
>> available publicly (obviously the decryption would not be)?
>
> Both methods are publicly available, it's the keys that are kept
> secret. Support for https is on the feature-request list. It should
> be possible to do it using the sockets in 2.3, but you'd probably need
> to write an external to do the encryption/decryption (this part could
> certainly be done in MetaTalk, but it would be some pretty hairy
> scripting).
>
I came across some publicly available C code for encrypting/decrypting with
a wealth of algorithms, and had thought that it might make a useful set of
externals, but not being a C programmer...
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