1. Imagine you are the owner of an e-commerce Web site. What are some of the
signs that your site has been hacked? Discuss the major type of attack you could
expect to experience and the resulting damage to your site. Write brief report
2. Find three certification authorities and compare the features of each company’s
digital certificates. Provide a brief description of each company as well, including
number of clients
3. Visits Netcraft’s Web page, “What is this SSL site running,”
http://www.netcraft.com/sslwhats, and run SSL queries for five sites of your
choosing. For each site, identify the digital certificate owner, the Web server
software being used, the encryption algorithm supported by the server, the
administrative details of the certificate (the period during which it was valid and
the serial number) and the certification authority that issued the certificate.