Providing Secure Communications Services to Consumers

Assume an environment in which the communications between the Core and Satellite servers needs to be secure. In this case, the Core will assume the role of server and, as such, will need a public certificate that it can share with the Satellites. The Core server’s public certificate contains its public key, server name, and a signature from a Certificate Authority (attesting to the identity of the server).

Further, each Satellite server, in the role of “client,” will need its own set of certificates so that it can encrypt and decrypt messages between it and the Core. A certificate represents the Satellite, identifying it to the Core.

Each Core and Satellite also needs its own private key to decrypt messages.


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