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After you have a firm set of requirements, focus
on design. This determines how you're going to satisfy
requirements with least cost. The design should fully describe
what components and configurations are necessary to satisfy
the requirements.
Through the design process,
produce a design specification that highlights the chosen
design elements and provides a diagram indicating the
placement of access points within the facility. For smaller
networks, you may only spend a day or so designing the
solution. In larger implementations, it may take weeks or
months to fully define enough technical detail before moving
forward with the acquisition of hardware and installation
services. These larger projects will likely benefit from
simulation, prototyping, or pilot testing as part of the
design to ensure you've made the right choices and the
requirements are fully
realizable.
Keys in the Clear
In a
typical SSL installation, the server maintains credentials so that clients
can authenticate the server. In addition to presenting a certificate at
connection time, the server also maintains a private key,
which is necessary for establishing that the server
presenting a certificate is actually presenting its own certificate.
Cryptographic-acceleration cards will generally store the key in hardware, making it unavailable
to the actual computer.
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