Mastering Web Site Development/Microsoft Mastering Web Site Development (Microsoft) (1997).iso/Media/Ch10/W10P010.cc2

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0, Internet is becoming increasingly popular for
4, exchange of information as it is conducting business
7, transactions. It is extremely important that the
10, information flowing on the wire is secured against
13, any unauthorized access or modification. It's also
16, important to know who the communicating parties
18, are and you should be able to guarantee their
20, authenticity. To provide these services, we need to
24, enable mechanisms for authentication, authorization,
27, and privacy. Microsoft Information Security
30, Framework is a collection of technologies and products
33, which provides a set of services which include
36, secure communication facilities, a certificate server,
39, a certificate storage and retrieval facility, and
42, a whole set of APIs to program your applications
47, using these certificate services. These services
49, also come built-in into Internet Explorer as a
52, client piece and are in Internet Information Server as a
56, server piece. So as an application writer, as a web site
58, developer, you may want to use these facilites
61, built-into our Information Server to create a
63, certificate-based authentication system. The biggest
66, advantage of this is that you don't have to know your
68, customer, so the parties who wish to communicate
71, with you, apriori, and yet you can enforce
75, proper access controls based on the identity which
77, is encoded in these certificates. These
80, certificates could be obtained by third parties like
82, VeriSign, or could be generated internally using Microsoft
85, Certificate Server.
87, END