Patent · US Expired

Secure socket layer application program apparatus and method

US5825890A · kind A · utility

294Cited by
5References
27Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJul 1, 1997
Grant dateOct 20, 1998
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Expiry dateJul 1, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/326
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer program product comprising: a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for encrypting and decrypting information transferred over a network between a client application program running in a client computer and a server application program running in a server computer, the computer readable program code means in the computer program product comprising: computer readable program code means for providing a socket application program interface to an application layer program; computer readable program code means for providing encrypted information to transport protocol layer services; computer readable program code means for encrypting information received from an application layer program; and computer readable program code means for decrypting information received from transport protocol layer services.

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