Hello all,
in SSL, certificates contain the public key for encryption. Does that mean that anybody can extract it? but doesn't that mean that you can decrypt the private key when it is sent over from the server to the client if you intercept the transmition? Or is it that only an SSL compatible browser can extract the key correctly, and then it keeps it secret? thanks.
in SSL, certificates contain the public key for encryption. Does that mean that anybody can extract it? but doesn't that mean that you can decrypt the private key when it is sent over from the server to the client if you intercept the transmition? Or is it that only an SSL compatible browser can extract the key correctly, and then it keeps it secret? thanks.
