Let us begin by understanding what cryptography is.CryptographyIt is a technique of writing in a secret code which is in an unreadable format to the third parties. Plaintext indicates the data which is in the readable format and also which is not encrypted.The plaintext is converted into cipher text which ... Read More

Let us begin by learning about the digital certificate.Digital CertificateIt is basically a certificate issued digitally, issued to verify a user's authenticity i.e., verifying the user sending a message is who he or she claims to be, and also to provide the receiver with the means to encode a reply.Whoever ... Read More

Let us understand the symmetric key encryption.Symmetric Key encryptionSymmetric-key encryption algorithms in cryptography use a single key or the same cryptographic keys (secret key) shared between the two parties for both encrypting plain-text and decrypting cipher-text. The keys could be identical or there could be a simple change to go ... Read More

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport security layer (TSL) are internet security protocols used for secured communication between the web-browser and the webserver. SSL is the predecessor of TLS so logically TLS is more secure than SSL.DifferencesLet us discuss the differences between SSL and TSL in point wise manner −Point ... Read More

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) provides all encryption services in IPSec based on integrity for the payload and not for the IP header, confidentiality and authentication that using encryption, without authentication is strongly discouraged because it is insecure.Any translations in readable message format into an unreadable format are encrypted and used ... Read More

Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) provides all encryption services in IPSec based on integrity for the payload and not for the IP header, confidentiality and authentication that using encryption, without authentication is strongly discouraged because it is insecure.Any translations in readable message format into an unreadable format are encrypted and used ... Read More

Authentication Header (AH) is used to provide integrity and authentication to IP datagrams. Replay protection is also possible. The services are connectionless, that means they work on a per-packet basis.AH is used in two modes as follows −Transport modeTunnel modeAH authenticates are the same as IP datagram. In transport mode, ... Read More

IP Security (IPSec) is a collection of protocols which is designed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to provide security for a packet at the network level. It helps to create confidential and authenticated and packets for the IP layer as shown in below diagram −IPSec protocol aim is to ... Read More

Let us understand what the domain name system (DNS) is.Domain Name SystemAll the web servers connected to the internet have a unique IP address in textual form. Now, the process of translating the textual form into an IP address is called DNS or DOMAIN NAME SERVICE name resolution.Theoretically during the ... Read More

The main difference between domain and domain name server (DNS) is that the domain could be a piece of string that helps to spot a specific web site while the DNS (Domain Name System) could be a server that translates the domain to the corresponding ip address to supply the ... Read More