Early web browsers 2 – Transport Layer Security at a Glance
The very first SSLv1 draft had no integrity protection at all. In subsequent revisions of that draft, a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) was added. This, however, didn’t solve the message integrity problem because CRC was originally designed as an error-detection code to detect accidental bit flips in communication messages. Unlike cryptographic hash functions, CRCs are…