Discuss the Security of Communications Channels

question 34

Essay

Discuss the security of communications channels. Include definitions and explanations for the terms Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS), secure negotiated session, session key, and VPN.

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Definitions:

Average Total Cost Curves

Graphs that show the average total cost of producing different quantities of output, typically U-shaped due to economies and diseconomies of scale.

Economic Profits

The difference between a firm's total revenue and its total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, representing the excess over the opportunity cost.

Perfect Competition

A market structure characterized by a complete lack of friction or impediments to the entry of new firms, where all sellers and buyers have access to the same information and no individual entity can influence the market price.

Market Price

The present cost at which a service or asset is available for purchase or sale.