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Overview

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol that uses public and private keys to secure communication between parties. When an SSL connection is requested, the initiator (or client) and responder (or server) perform a handshake where digital identities, or certificates, are exchanged to ensure that both parties are known. SSL can also be used to specify an encryption algorithm for the data that is exchanged between the parties.

The name SSL has been replaced by Transport Layer Security (TLS), but SSL is used as a synonym for TLS in this document. For more general information about SSL, see the TLS specification at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt or view an online tutorial about SSL or TLS on the web.

The General palette provides the identity resource for use in SSL configurations. Identity resources contain information that is used to authorize a connection. The identity resource is described in Identity in TIBCO Designer Palette Reference.

Before you can perform SSL configuration, you must make certificates and other identity resources available to session resources in your project such as TIBCO Rendezvous sessions and JMS sessions.

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