Title: The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol
Author(s): E. Rescorla, A. Schiffman.
Status: EXPERIMENTAL
Date: Aug 1999
Length: 95645
This memo describes a syntax for securing messages sent using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which forms the basis for the World Wide Web. Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) provides independently applicable security services for transaction confidentiality, authenticity/integrity and non-repudiability of origin.
The protocol emphasizes maximum flexibility in choice of key management mechanisms, security policies and cryptographic algorithms by supporting option negotiation between parties for each transaction.
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