Secure sockets layer communication

The industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol uses signed digital certificates from a certificate authority (CA) for authentication. It provides secure communication in an ISIM deployment. SSL provides encryption of the data that is exchanged between the applications. An application that acts as an SSL server presents its credentials in a signed digital certificate to verify to an SSL client that it is the entity it claims to be. We can also configure an application that acts as an SSL server to require the application that acts as an SSL client to present its credentials in a certificate. This method completes a two-way exchange of certificates.

See:

• SSL terminology
  
• One-way and two-way SSL authentication
  
• SSL in a clustered environment
  
• SSL implementations
  

Parent topic: Security