Security/Privacy

SSL Secured Exchange Email System

Using Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Exchange Server and 128-bit encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, Physicians' Review Network is able to provide it's reviewers with the most advanced, easy to use, and secure web mail system available today. If you know how to use Microsoft Outlook, you will be able to use our system.

Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a public key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:.

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most Web server products. Developed by Netscape, SSL also gained the support of Microsoft and other Internet client/server developers as well and became the de facto standard until evolving into Transport Layer Security. The "sockets" part of the term refers to the sockets method of passing data back and forth between a client and a server program in a network or between program layers in the same computer. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate.

TLS and SSL are an integral part of most Web browsers (clients) and Web servers. If a Web site is on a server that supports SSL, SSL can be enabled and specific Web pages can be identified as requiring SSL access. Any Web server can be enabled by using Netscape's SSLRef program library which can be downloaded for noncommercial use or licensed for commercial use.

TLS and SSL are not interoperable. However, a message sent with TLS can be handled by a client that handles SSL but not TLS.

Read more about it:
>> Netscape describes SSL as one of several security technologies that it supports.
>> SearchSystemsManagement.com has many links related to Secure Sockets Layer.
>> Go to SearchSecurity.com for security-specific information on SSL
>> Netscape provides the SSL 3.0 Specification.
>> Verisign , the leading digital certificate authority, provides over 125,000 Web sites with SSL server certificates, mainly for use in e-commerce.

Walk-through

Step 1: Point your web browser to http://www.prnmail.com

Step 2: Enter your username and password, then click 'OK'


The yellow padlock in the lower right-hand corner of your web browser indicates that you are currently on a secure page, and that it is safe to transmit sensitive information.



Double-click the padlock to bring up the site's digital certificate.

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