Securing Communication with SSL

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides a mechanism for two systems connecting over the network to authenticate against each other and establish a secure channel for communication by encrypting the data exchanged between the two parties. It is the most widely used transport-level data-communication protocol providing support for authentication, confidentiality, message integrity, and secure cryptographic key exchange between client and server. Here are the key aspects of SSL:

Image Data encryption Ensures that the data exchanged between the two parties is encrypted and can only be read by the intended recipient. SSL supports ...

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