TANDBERG D13166 05 manual Communication Security Overview, Secure Sockets Layer Standard

Communication Security Overview

Communication Security Overview

Secure Sockets Layer Standard

See&Share software complies with the SSL 3.0 standard for secure communications. Data transmitted in SSL mode is encrypted to prevent a third party from viewing it while it’s in transit between a client and server. See&Share software has been tested to ensure that the encryption mechanism and the communication layers conform to the standard.

The SSL standard was originally constructed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications between a Web browser and a Web server. Since its inception, the standard has been revised several times to strengthen security and fix security holes that existed in previous versions. Version 3.0 of the standard is mature, well established in the industry and has remained unchanged since November, 1996.

Software toolkit vendors supply libraries that implement the SSL standard and can be used to build SSL-capable applications. See&Share software uses a toolkit called OpenSSL to provide SSL security on both the client and the server. This toolkit implements both the SSL and the Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. For information about this toolkit, visit www.openssl.org.

Certificates

A certificate is a digitally signed document that serves to validate the sender’s identity. See&Share software generates a new 256-bit SSL certificate each time the server start.

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