Hi
I just began to learn about SSL too, and I found on web very usefull info. Look at
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~yasinsac/group/work/childs/TLS.html
really simple, intuitively explained handshake protocol of (SSL/TLS)
To get you started:
{S,Ks+}Kca denotes a catenated message {S,Ks+} containing the id of a participant S (probably a "server" of some sort) and a Public Key for S. That catenated message is encrypted under a symmetric key (Kca) shared between participant C and participant A. The de facto standard notation for key names is that any variable capital K is a key. If it is suffixed with two participant identifyers, it is a shared key between those two participants. If it is suffixed by one identifyer and a + it is that participant's public key, if suffixed by a minus, it represents that participants private key.
Rc, Rs are random numbers generated by those participants. sKs+ represents a temporary public key for the server. sKs- is the inverse of the temporary public server key.
Hope it helps
good luck
Tanya
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