Re: encryption over the web

[Ivan Krstic <krstic () fas harvard edu>]

OPTUSBYS wrote:
> If I were to enable encryption security for authorized people to access my
> web page, how many implementation options there are available? 
>
> Is SSL the only option to think of?

The question is whether you want people to be able to access your pages 
with standard browsers, or whether they'll need custom software. The 
latest crop of browsers (including MSIE) support SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1, 
so those are your browser-independent options; anything else will 
probably require you to write a plugin or some type of tunneling 
encryption (such as stunnel). With the latter, how you do your 
encryption would be completely up to you. For what it's worth, I'd 
*strongly* advise against it, however.

Cheers,
Ivan.