What Is Ssl?

runzun

Jul 24 2009, 06:19 PM

Wcan someone help me what does SSL stands for??

yordan

Jul 25 2009, 10:26 AM

You can see it for instance here : http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefi...i343029,00.html

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The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most Web server products.

Source : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=s...mp;aq=f&oq=

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docduke

Jul 26 2009, 04:01 AM

Functionally, you use SSL when you begin a hypertext interaction with "https:". That tells your browser you want your session encrypted. Most often, you do that by simply clicking on a link at, for example, a bank. The result is that a "layer" of software is added at both the bank and in your computer, to encrypt communications between you and the bank.

The encryption takes place using public key cryptography. When you use this method for email, it is truly a "public" key. It can be looked up in a database, such as the MIT keyserver.

When SSL is used between a personal computer and a bank, each of them creates a public-private key pair just for this session, and sends the public key to the other.

I hope this helps!

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