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Now you can get
technical
After you
have a firm set of requirements, focus on design. This
determines how you're going to satisfy requirements with
least cost. The design should fully describe what
components and configurations are necessary to satisfy
the requirements.
hey.
Keys in the Clear
In a
typical SSL installation, the server maintains
credentials so that clients can authenticate the server.
In addition to presenting a certificate at connection
time, the server also maintains a private key, which is
necessary for establishing that the server presenting a
certificate is actually presenting its own certificate.
Cryptographic-acceleration cards will generally store
the key in hardware, making it unavailable to the actual
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