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The SSL means Secure Socket Layer is a protocol designed to enable applications to transmit information back and forth securely. Applications that use the Secure Sockets Layer protocol inherently know how to give and receive encryption keys with other applications, as well as how to encrypt and decrypt data sent between the two.

Some applications that are configured to run SSL include web browsers like Internet Explorer and FireFox, email programs like Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail.app, and SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) programs, etc. These programs are automatically able to receive SSL connections.

To establish a secure SSL connection, However, Your application must first have an encryption key assigned to it by a Certification Authority in the form of a Certificate. Once it has a unique key of its own, you can establish a secure connection using the SSL protocol.

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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the most widely known protocol that offers privacy and good reliability for client-server communication over the Internet.  It is used mostly in HTTP server and client applications.  SSL is a layered protocol and consists of four sub-protocols:

 SSL Handshake Protocol
SSL Change Cipher Spec Protocol
SSL Alert Protocol
SSL Record Layer
SSL is a protocol for cryptographically securing transactions between a web browser and a web server.
The Apache HTTP Server module mod_ssl provides an interface to the OpenSSL library, which provides Strong Encryption using the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols.

Yes its a very good protocol to transmit data on the internet securely so its very efficient in work therefore hacking of connection is very difficult in this protocol.

Yes for the internet transmission its really good and necessary protocol as its making the hacking of connection very difficult so that you can have a secured connection.

The SSL protocol is the Web standard for encrypting communications between users and e-commerce sites SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and manipulation of data transmitted. SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a website such as credit card numbers are confidential. Web server certificates (also known as secure server certificates or SSL certificates) are required to initiate an SSL session.
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