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Cryptography

Definitions:
Plaintext vs. Ciphertext
Cipher
Key
Required by the cipher for encrypting and decrypting

Cryptography and Encryption:
Shared key encryption:
Both sender and rcvr of an encrypted msg to have a shared secret – a sequence of characters called a key that the sender uses to encrypt the msg and that the recipient uses to decrypt it
Also known as secret key or symmetric key encryption

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Installing a Native mode Configuration Manager Site.
Installing a Configuration manager site in Native mode you need an existing PKI infrastructure setup.
Before the installation can begin the pre-requisites must be met.
·Server 2003 R2 w/ SP2
·Server 2008
·IIS 6/BITS/WebDAV
·.NET Framework
·WSUS SP1
·WinRM 1.1
·Extended Schema
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