An overview of cryptographic solutions to web security

The Internet is huge and largely unregulated place. There are a lot of dangers in putting up a web page on Internet. These vary from invasions of privacy to hackers cracking our system. One of the most important issues in traditional and modern network architecture is security. Web security is a vast area encompassing computer system security, network security, authentication services, message validation, personal privacy issues and cryptography. Cryptography is proven to be a better solution for implementing web security. Cryptography is not only about encrypting and decrypting messages; it is also about solving real world problems that require information security.