IBM HTTP Server for WebSphere Application Server, Version 6.x

Securing IBM HTTP Server

This section describes topics on how to secure IBM HTTP Server, including:

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol provides transport layer security including authenticity, data signing, and data encryption to ensure that data transfer between a client and a server remains private and secure. The foundation technology for SSL is public key cryptography, which guarantees that when an entity encrypts data using its private key, only entities with the corresponding public key can decrypt that data.