The past several years have seen tremendous growth in the use of SSL certificates, and this growth is continuing at a rapid pace. While many people are still unfamiliar with the term, they are increasingly aware that a digital certificate is a key that encrypts usernames and passwords so they cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient. This is a critical security feature that everyone should use, and therefore, it’s important to understand exactly how SSL certificates work.

One of the most important things you can do is to secure your online identity. It is only natural that you want to be protected, especially if you are using sensitive information on the web, such as your bank account details or your credit card details. This is when the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) comes into play.

Understanding SSL

SSL or Secure Socket Layer is a protocol for transporting data over the internet for secure communication. It is commonly used on web servers and can be used for communication such as logging into a website or encrypting and decrypting data streams. The main purpose of SSL is to ensure that sensitive information transmitted between a server and a client cannot be intercepted and read by a third party.

SSL is an encryption technology that scrambles the data being sent between two parties so that even the recipient cannot read it. It is nothing new, but in the past, it was not easy to use. The encryption methods available were usually very slow and few. But the introduction of the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol has changed that. Now you can use TLS protocol to encrypt all of your data, including your bank account and online shopping.

With the internet becoming more and more popular, we are starting to see more websites using SSL encryption. The purpose of this encryption is to protect your privacy and to prevent eavesdroppers and hackers from snooping in on your conversations.

Importance of SSL

When you access a website in-browser, you don’t usually think much about the encryption that’s going on under the hood. But even if you don’t know the name of the encryption standard—SSL, sslv3, TLS, etc.—you’ll notice that it’s encrypting your connection. That’s because encrypting a connection ensures that no one in the middle can read your communications.

Encryption is what keeps us all safe online. It’s why we can shop on the internet without fear of having our credit card information stolen. It’s also why we can share what we want with whom we want. But encryption isn’t used only by businesses. The government uses it to keep our information safe, by the military to keep our troops safe, by professors to keep our research safe, and by journalists to keep our works safe.

As technology becomes more and more intertwined in our lives, the need for security has become more important. One of the most common ways to secure information is by using encryption, which scrambles information only to be read when deciphered with a key. Encryption can be done with software, hardware, or a combination of both. There are many encryption standards and strengths, from simple ones that use the symmetric key to more complex ones that use asymmetric keys.

Why SSL is important online

Historically, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) has been a relatively obscure technology that banks and other financial institutions have mainly used to encrypt the communication between their online customers and their web servers. This has made it difficult for web users to know whether a trusted certificate was securing their web session or not. Today though, the need for SSL has become much more important for the average web user, who often accesses the internet via a public Wi-Fi hotspot, such as at a coffee shop or airport.

  1. SSL, or Secured Socket Layer, is a cryptographic protocol that secures network connections between a server and a client so that data transmitted over the connection is encrypted.
  2. If you browse the internet using an encrypted connection, your browser will display a green lock icon in the address bar. 

To understand why SSL is important to the online world, it’s best to think about what would happen if you were browsing without an SSL connection.