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 his 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.
On most platforms, Adaptive Server uses SSL Plus(TM) library API from Certicom Corp. However, for Windows Opteron X64, Adaptive Server uses OpenSSL as the SSL provider.
