Authentication and Data Signing
Keir Davis, John W. Turner, Nathan Yocom · Apress eBooks · 2004
The previous chapter showed you some of the basics of secure communication and how to keep data secure while it is being transmitted and received. However, how do you verify the authenticity of a person on either side of the equation? Public Key Infrastructure handles this when you are talking about a server or client that anyone can use, but to restrict access to a resource, you need to also be able to verify that a person is who they say they are. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.