Re: How operative systems use cryptography

[Clement Dupuis <clement.dupuis () gmail com>]

Encryption could be at different layers.

It could be at the application layer where you have a tool with
encryption built in.

It could be file encryption where you could you a tool like PGP or
AXCrypt to encrypt one file at the time.

It could be at the session level where SSL or TLS could be used to
protect the whole session.

It could be at the network layer where IPSEC could be use to encrypt
the traffic.

It could be at the Data Links layer where many of the non IPSEC
tunneling tools would be located.

So to make a long story short:  it can be use in many places

Take care

Clement

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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:53 PM, haZard0us <hazard0us.pt () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This may like a silly question - no problem, I'm kind of silly in this
> area - but I want to know where and how operative systems use it.
>
> I've searched on google but all I found is about password hashing. And
> because probably it's used somewhere else, I'm here asking the help for the
> OSes gurus :)
>
> Cheers!
>
> --haZ
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