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1. Safety requirements
It's not uncommon to talk about the security of Internet exchanges, usually to say how risky it is to trade on this network. The fact that data circulates on networks open to all, and that servers or workstations can be accessed from anywhere in the world, can give cause for concern. So what are the security issues to be addressed when it comes to e-commerce (in the sense of commercial transactions) or any other type of exchange over the Internet? Let's take a look at some of them, after an aside on terminology.
In computer parlance, we distinguish between identification, which consists in associating a simple identifier (more often used today, the term identifier) with a given person (e.g. a short name), and authentication, which consists in verifying, by any appropriate means (password,...
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Safety requirements
Public key cryptography
Bibliography
References
Standards and norms
- Information Technology – Open systems interconnection – The directory: general framework for public key and attribute certificates - ITU Rec. X.509 - 2016
- Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory – Part 8: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks - ISO/IEC 9594-8 - 2-2017
- Secure Hash Standard (SHS) - FIPS PUB 180 - 4(2015)
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) - FIPS...
Regulations
Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures (OJ L. 13, 19 January 2000, pp. 12-20).
Law no. 2000-230 of March 13, 2000 adapting the law of evidence to information technologies and relating to electronic signatures (JO no. 62 of March 14, 2000). Replaced by Ordinance n° 2016-131.
Decree...
Organizations
Internet Engineering Task Force
Virtual Private Network Consortium (VPNC)
French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry
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