Transport Layer Security - Part 2 SSL

Introduction
I have already discussed about SSL in my previous article. Here I will be explaining you SSLv3. It is developed by Netscape company .In this section I will discuss on SSLv3.

General SSL Architecture
It is designed to secure end-to-end service on the internet. I will illustrate that SSL is not a single handed protocol. It is a layer of more than one protocol such as
a.    SSL record protocol
b.    SSL handshake protocol
c.    SSL change cipher spec protocol
d.    SSL alert protocol

Transport Layer Security - Part 1

This is a non-technical guide which will make you familiar with the transport layer. The main purpose of writing this guide is to point out why we need major security implementation on the transport layer. What if the components of this layer get compromised?

SSL Unleashed

In this article I am going to tell you everything about SSL that what it is why we need it, technical and non technical aspects of SSL etc.. This article covers the introduction, SSL certificate, Encryption, process of encryption and how your browser interact and trust that certificate provided by the website you are visiting.

Existence of SSL

There are basically 2 aspects of SSl. One is Encryption and second is Identification.  Now encryption is what you hide the content of the data sent from one machine to another machine. It is done by changing the content of the data in identical to garbage form which is human readable but not human understandable. It is exactly like speaking in different languages with what one person is not familiar. I am Indian if someone speaks in Russian language, it is not understandable by me. So here Russian language is like encrypted language for me. However if I get a translator and he/she translates that Russian language into Hindi  then I can say that now that is understandable by me. So it is said that message has been decrypted. Identification is related to trust.  In the previous scenario, how can I trust the translator who is converting Russian language to Hindi? Is she/he legitimate ? Can I trust him/her? In the digital world, it is something like this. Your machine has to trust the SSL certificate (security mechanism), provided by the website via an SSL certificate issuing vendor.

Python Service Banner Grabbing Script

Hello Guys I have written some small banner grabbing script in python. It is very simple and basic. By using this script you can check the services any network or domain. You will be able to know which services as well as version of service they are using.

In our penetration testing we do some nmap or other port scanning. After we come to know that these much of ports are opened, we try to find the version of service they are using. We do that in order to find  if there is any direct exploit available or not. So in this case this little code will help you to find out the version of services.

Its just basic script which does FTP, HTTP banner grabbing.