On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> Can someone give me a semi-technical explanation of what makes a secure
> server secure? ie. is the information transferred from the browser form
> page to the server scrambled, etc.?
The communication between the browser and server can be made secure via
a type of encryption called SSL (which stands for Secure Sockets Layer).
However to secure a server, there is more to it than that. You have to
turn off various services, "harden the OS" which means to change the
default settings to make it more resisitant to attack, and other types of
configuration changes.
For more information regarding security & Linux, I recommend the Linux
Admistrators Security Guide (LASG) which is on www.linuxdoc.org
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