<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Generalities</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="SSL Certificates HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SSL Certificates HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="x38.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >SSL Certificates HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x38.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN36">Chapter 1. Generalities</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="x38.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1.1. <A HREF="x38.html#AEN46" >Disclaimer and Licence</A ></DT ><DT >1.1.2. <A HREF="x38.html#AEN61" >Prior knowledge</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="x64.html" >What is SSL and what are Certificates?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.2.1. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN83" >Private Key/Public Key:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.2. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN88" >The Certificate:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.3. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN93" >The Symmetric key:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.4. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN97" >Encryption algorithm:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.5. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN100" >The Hash:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.6. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN103" >Signing:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.7. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN108" >PassPhrase:</A ></DT ><DT >1.2.8. <A HREF="x64.html#AEN111" >Public Key Infrastructure</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="x114.html" >What about S/Mime or other protocols?</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x38.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SSL Certificates HOWTO</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >