Learning About Ssl On The Internet Posted By: John Greenhoff
Have you ever ordered some products over the web? Ever noticed the little lock icon in the corner of the browser windows? It’s actually surprising how little we know about the security we rely on to keep our transactions secure. Well the security that protects the majority of our online transactions is based on SSL.
First things first, SSL stands for Secure Socket layer, the system which was developed by Netscape in the mid 1990s for use with their Netscape Navigator web browser. This browser was the very first to offer secure and reliable e-commerce features. It addressed the problem that when browsing the web anyone could spy on your communications. The issue is mainly due to the complete lack of security in the HTTP protocol, which means that it is not safe to send your credit card or any personal details across the web.
So netscape designed a protocol, a new way for two computes to talk with each other, in fact to send encrypted messages to each other. This made it impossible for anyone to read the messages being sent apart from the two computers involved.
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