About Encryption

The default level of encryption for network transactions is none. You can implement the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to use the OpenSSL protocol with RSA certificates and SHA-1 signatures. You can enable one-way authentication or two-way authentication:

• One-way authentication
  The MM server has a certificate and the remote application does not.
• Two-way authentication
  The MM server has a certificate and all remote applications have certificates. The MM server accepts a client connection only when the client presents its certificate.

To enable SSL, you run a script that configures the certificate for MMS. The script requires that you provide the distinguished names of the CA certificate and MM certificate. See Setting Up Encryption for instructions on configuring encryption for the MM server.