Crypto Protocols

SSH Protocol

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📚 SSL and TLS

This article explains how SSL and its successsor work.

Intro

SSL makes use of assymmetric encryption for verification and symmetric encryption for data exchanging. Common ports: 443, sometimes 5443. TLS is an improvement. SSL is not being used too much since it’s not very secure (exploiting it requires a lot of knowledge and effort though), however, the protocol scheme is still called SSL/TLS.

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Preamble

Bob 🐝 salutes the 🌺 server . This message is called Client Hello. It contains the following things: