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Securing Your Server

Since you purchased this product,you areprobably interestedin conduct-

ing electronic commerce using yourweb site. To makeyour customersfeel

safe doing business with you over the web, your web server needs to be

secure. A secure server instructs any browser accessing your site to en-

crypt all the data sent back and forth. Encrypted data can’t be intercepted

andreadby athirdparty. Yourcustomers willfeelmorecomfortablewhen

making purchases from your site if they know that their transactions are

secure.

Secure servers aren’t only for electronic commerce. A secure server may

also be used to transmit sensitive datasuch as sales ﬁgures to sales people

on the road or to business partners over the Internet.

This chapter will show you how to create a key and a certiﬁcate request.

Then we’ll go through the process of getting a certiﬁcate signed by one of

two differentCertiﬁcate Authorities (CAs): VeriSign

(http://www.verisign.com)and Thawte(http://www.thawte.com).

Once you have a signed certiﬁcate, you’ll learn how to install it on your

secure web server.

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