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Super Micro Intelligent Switch Command Line Interface User Guide

7 SSL

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), is a protocol developed for transmitting private documents through
the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that is transferred over the SSL
connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites
use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By
convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:
The SSL Protocol is designed to provide privacy between two communicating applications (a
client and a server) and is designed to authenticate the server, and optionally the client. SSL
requires a reliable transport protocol (e.g. TCP) for data transmission and reception.
The advantage of the SSL Protocol is that it is application protocol independent. A higher level
application protocol (e.g. HTTP, FTP, TELNET, etc.) can layer on top of the SSL Protocol
transparently. The SSL Protocol can negotiate an encryption algorithm and session key as well
as authenticate a server before the application protocol transmits or receives its first byte of data.
All of the application protocol data is transmitted encrypted, ensuring privacy.
The list of CLI commands for the configuration of SSL is as follows:
ip http secure
ssl gen cert-req algo rsa sn
ssl server-cert
debug ssl
show ssl server-cert
show ip http secure server status
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