From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 20:47:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web20107.mail.yahoo.com (web20107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B60B437B405 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 20:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20010907034752.13664.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [154.20.95.223] by web20107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:47:52 PDT Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 20:47:52 -0700 (PDT) From: ann kok Subject: Re: http and https To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010906170518.A88048@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Kris --- Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:43:49PM -0700, ann kok > wrote: > > Dear all > > > > What is the different between http and https? > > > > I only know https is secuirty than http > > but what is this level of the secuity > > It uses SSL to secure the transport. Do you mean all transport bits are encryped? I can't read it even though on physical level? > > > In addition, https provides the certification > > but what is the function of this certification > > Authentication of one or both endpoints so the other > knows that > they're talking to the person they think they are. > Why does some https have CA address? Thank you > For more details, you should do a quick web search > and read up on the > protocol..I'm sure you can find lots of information > out there. > > Kris > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message