What is SSL?
Amrita Basu
Last Update 6 months ago
The security of a website is improved by SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which offers two crucial features:
- Encryption
- Authentication
- With Encryption, no one else can read the data that users provide to your website. The web server and web browser exchange encrypted data when a user sees your site using an SSL connection (URLs that start with https://). Visitors can trust that you are who, you say you are.
- If you have successfully Authenticated yourself, Users can be sure they are viewing your site and not an impostor's when they connect to your website using an SSL Certificate.
- While Authentication, helps you establish your identity to others, Encryption helps secure data.
When users visit an SSL-enabled site, most web browsers display a lock icon (usually in the address bar).