SSL Handshake Protocol

• The SSL Handshake Protocol uses the SSL Record Protocol to exchange a series of messages between an SSL-enabled server and an SSL-enabled client when they first establish an SSL connection.
  • This exchange of messages is designed to enable the following actions:
    • Authenticate the server to the client.
    • Allow the client and server to select cryptographic algorithms, or ciphers, they both support.
    • Optionally authenticate the client to the server.
    • Use public key encryption to generate shared secret keys.
    • Establish an encrypted SSL connection.

What are the SSL handshake steps?

---

---

© 2006 - 2013 John Michael Pierobon

Notes