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unusual facts about Secure Sockets Layer



NicheStack TCP/IPv4

Also available to run on NicheStack are a number of security modules, including SSH, IPsec/IKE and SSL.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 includes Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, a new Microsoft proprietary VPN protocol which provides a mechanism to transport Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic (including IPv6 traffic) through an SSL channel.

Timing attack

In 2003, Boneh and Brumley demonstrated a practical network-based timing attack on SSL-enabled web servers, based on a different vulnerability having to do with the use of RSA with Chinese remainder theorem optimizations.

Webmin

It defaults to TCP port 10000 for communicating, and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl Modules.


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