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Just expanding the acronyms should give you a decent general idea - one is a 'secure shell' the other a 'secure socket layer'. For more details, it's pretty goo
by glurgh 13y ago
Just expanding the acronyms should give you a decent general idea - one is a 'secure shell' the other a 'secure socket layer'. For more details, it's pretty googleable.
- andrewflnr 13y agoBut aren't the encryption algorithms involved pretty similar? Public key exchange of symmetric keys for some well-known algorithm?
- jlgaddis 13y agoYes. For example, you can generate your own RSA private key (say, from the command line on a UNIX/Linux box). You can use that key and generate an "SSL certificate" and have it signed by a certificate authority (a "public" for-profit CA or your own private internal CA). You can use that same key with SSH for authentication. You can use that same key with GnuPG for e-mail signing and authentication.