SSL VPN: SSL Tunnel Establishment
by Cyrus Lok on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 1:16am
1. Host makes an outbound connection to TCP 443.
2. The router responds with a digital certificate which contains the public key that is digitally signed by Certificate Authority.
3. Host generates a shared-secret key and encrypts the key with the public key received from the router.
4. Host sends the shared-secret key to the router.
5. Router decrypts the shared-secret key with its private key.
6. Now the router and host got the symmetric key (the shared-secret key), and both will use this key to encrypt the SSL session.
SSL uses encryption algorithm with key lengths between 40 and 256 bits.
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