Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Fernandez, Eduardo B.

Abstract

The SSL/TLS is the main protocol used to provide secure data connection between a client and a server. The main concern of using this protocol is to avoid the secure connection from being breached. Computer systems and their applications are becoming more complex and keeping these secure connections between all the connected components is a challenge. To avoid any new security flaws and protocol connections weaknesses, the SSL/TLS protocol is always releasing newer versions after discovering security bugs and vulnerabilities in any of its previous version. We have described some of the common security flaws in the SSL/TLS protocol by identifying them in the literature and then by analyzing the activities from each of their use cases to find any possible threats. These threats are realized in the form of misuse cases to understand how an attack happens from the point of the attacker. This approach implies the development of some security patterns which will be added as a reference for designing secure systems using the SSL/TLS protocol. We finally evaluate its security level by using misuse patterns and considering the threat coverage of the models.

Extent

90 p.

Comments

Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.

Identifier

FA00004873

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