SSL is an industry standard for sending wire- or socket-level encrypted data over secure network connections.
Adaptive Server’s implementation of SSL provides several levels of security.
The server authenticates itself—proves that it is the server you intended to contact—and an encrypted SSL session begins before any data is transmitted.
Once the SSL session is established, the client requesting a connection can send its user name and password over the secure, encrypted connection.
A comparison of the digital signature on the server certificate can determine whether the data received by the client was modified before reaching the intended recipient.
Adaptive Server implements the SSL protocol as a filter that is appended to the master and query lines of the interfaces file. The address and port numbers where Adaptive Server accepts connections are configurable so you can specify multiple networks, different protocols, and alternate ports.
