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| author | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2010-09-06 14:39:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingela Anderton Andin <[email protected]> | 2010-09-09 11:08:05 +0200 |
| commit | bfaabab8c130a088d7bd703eb5e57c41fcd1f74f (patch) | |
| tree | 76a2e548f0dbc68b332aeb31e4e02ca93049328f /lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_protocol.xml | |
| parent | 4763e0b7b8c4859d9e56f1fc9aa1426eebc8f65d (diff) | |
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Updated documentation for ssl-4.0.1
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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_protocol.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_protocol.xml index 726b9a4eeb..6936408881 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_protocol.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_protocol.xml @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2003</year><year>2009</year> + <year>2003</year><year>2010</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ <section> <title>Security overview</title> - <p>To achive authentication and privacy the client and server will + <p>To achieve authentication and privacy the client and server will perform a TLS Handshake procedure before transmitting or receiving any data. During the handshake they agree on a protocol version and cryptographic algorithms, they generate shared secrets using public @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ <title>Data Privacy and Integrity</title> <p>A <em>symmetric key</em> algorithm has one key only. The key is - used for both encryption and decryption. These algoritms are fast + used for both encryption and decryption. These algorithms are fast compared to public key algorithms (using two keys, a public and a private one) and are therefore typically used for encrypting bulk data. @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ for each connection and are based on a secret negotiated in the TLS handshake. </p> - <p>The TLS handsake protocol and data transfer is run on top of + <p>The TLS handshake protocol and data transfer is run on top of the TLS Record Protocol that uses a keyed-hash MAC (Message Authenticity Code), or HMAC, to protect the message's data integrity. From the TLS RFC "A Message Authentication Code is a @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ with the private key of the issuer of the certificate. A chain of trust is build by having the issuer in its turn being certified by an other certificate and so on until you reach the - so called root certificate that is self signed e.i. issued + so called root certificate that is self signed i.e. issued by itself.</p> <p>Certificates are issued by <em>certification |