Ebusiness Security Using Microsoft Certificate Server
With the recent explosion of E-Commerce on the Internet, the concern for security of the data that is sent over the Internet is ever increasing. Digital certificates proved to be the need of the hour. The Microsoft’s Certificate Server is a server application for managing the issuance, revocation, and renewal of digital certificates.
Instead of the traditional form of securing web sites using user name and password where the data is not always safe, a digital certificate-based security provides an easy yet powerful way to send data over the Internet. This technical report explains the operations required for setting up of a Digital certificate based access to web sites, where the web sites allow only the browser with a valid digital certificate to access the site. Moreover by using techniques to map a client certificates to Windows NT user account provides web sites with enhanced security.
Public Key algorithm is one of the better ways used in data encryption. The algorithm uses two different keys a public key and a private key. A private key is kept private with the owner of the Key pair. The public is distributed to one who requested them through Certificates. One of the keys is used to encrypt the message and the other to decrypt the message. A digital certificate is a set of data issued by a Certification Authority (CA) and contains the public key. Certification authorities issue digital certificates for those how need them. It must make sure that the public key contained in a certificate belongs to the person to whom the certificate was issued....
