Security Overview Documentation?

Michael Starr (mstarr@fivepoints.com)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:13:06 -0400

Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970416121306.006be57c@mail.fivepoints.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:13:06 -0400
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com
From: Michael Starr <mstarr@fivepoints.com>
Subject: Security Overview Documentation?

I am looking for books/tutorials/white papers, etc. that give a basic
overview of Internet security issues. All of the documentation I have
found on the JavaSoft site assumes you already know something about
security, or only gives a cursory definition. I would like to find
documentation that tells me things like:

What is a Message Digest sceme and why would I use it? Is it the same as
public/private key schemes? Does one depend on the other? Are they used
for the same thing? If I want to encrpyt traffic back to a Web server,
what scheme should I use? Is this where SSL comes in? How does SSL relate
to message digests or public/private keys, if at all?

I hope this gives you an idea of what I am looking for. Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks!
-Mike
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Michael Starr (mstarr@fivepoints.com)
Tier Technologies
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