Tag: Encryption in Networks

asymmetric key: An approach to encryption where one (public) key is used to encrypt data prior to transmission and a...

You can take this quiz online at http://www.net-intro.com/quiz/ How do we indicate that we want a secure connection...

Since the Internet was nearly 20 years old before we needed broadly deployed security, we had to find a way to add...

While public/private key encryption works to allow the distribution of encryption keys across insecure networks and...

Since web browsers and web servers operate at the application layer, we barely notice whether we are using encrypted...

Since network engineers decided to add security nearly 20 years after the Internet protocols were developed, it was...

The traditional way to encrypt transmissions is using a shared secret (a password, a sentence, a number) that only the...

The concept of protecting information so it cannot be read while it is being transported over an insecure medium is...

In the early days of the Internet, networks were small and all of the routers were in secure locations. As long as...