HP Support Anywhere Installation and User Guide

Chapter 4 Using HP Support Anywhere

Typically, the public key is widely distributed. The private key, however, is kept

secret, so that the message can only be decrypted by someone in possession of the

private key.

Using this method of encryption, both the request for a document and the

document itself are encrypted to ensure that a text message can be read only by

the intended recipient.

Netscape's SSL Encryption

Another effective encryption scheme is called Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL is

a technology developed by Netscape that encrypts transactions that use the web-

based HTTP, NNTP, and FTP protocols. SSL allows server authentication

(verifying the server's identity to the client), encryption of data in transit, and

client authentication (verifying the client's identity to the server).

The following table lists security options supported by the three main web server

vendors.

Table 6: Security Options

Web Server

Software Vendor

User IDs &

Passwords

IP Restriction

Encryption

(SSL)

Netscape

XX X

Microsoft

XX X

Novell

XX *

X Supported feature * Feature supported on Novell Web Server 3.0