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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: http and https
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:47:52PM -0700, ann kok wrote:
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:43:49PM -0700, ann kok
> > wrote:
> > > What is the different between http and https?
> > > I only know https is secuirty than http
> > > but what is this level of the secuity
> > It uses SSL to secure the transport.
> Do you mean all transport bits are encryped?
> I can't read it even though on physical level?

The TCP payload is encrypted, the network header, the IP header
and the TCP header itself aren't.

Edwin

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