Re: Naive Question about SSL

2001-04-16 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:18:06PM -0500, David Jourard wrote: > Till now I always thought that the SSL was secure in just one direction > from the client to the server since the client browser encrypts the data > with a public key and the server decrypts with a private key; till someone > else

Naive Question about SSL

2001-04-16 Thread David Jourard
Hi, I"m hoping someone could just help my understanding about SSL. The scenario is a client is purchasing something from an e-commerce site and submits their credit card info on a form coming from a secure server. The secure server sends back a confirmation page showing everything purchased