Chapter 1. Understanding Encryption and Application Security

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Exploring Encryption

  • Using Certificates with Encryption

  • Digital Signatures

  • Message Enveloping

  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

  • Security and Audit Logs

With the explosion of commerce and business applications on the Internet, whole areas of programming expertise have entered the limelight. Just a few short years ago, encryption and application security were areas of programming limited to academic and military programming, along with some Research and Development labs at various corporations. Now encryption and application security have become essential components of most applications over the past few years.

Until very recently, the areas of encryption and application security ...

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