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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:52:14 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: http and https
Message-ID:  <20010907135214.J23013@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010907034752.13664.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>; from annkok2001@yahoo.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:47:52PM -0700
References:  <20010906170518.A88048@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010907034752.13664.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:47:52PM -0700, ann kok wrote:
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:43:49PM -0700, ann kok
> > wrote:
> > > 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?

The TCP payload is encrypted, the network header, the IP header
and the TCP header itself aren't.

Edwin

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