Windows Server 2003 Security: A Technical Reference

Use Secure Sockets Layer

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was devised by Netscape Communications Corporation as a communications protocol that could provide identification of a secure web server and the ability to encrypt communications between a web browser client and a web server. For many years, its main use was just that: to provide secure communications for secure web servers, primarily for e-commerce. Today, however, SSL is used to protect Outlook Web Access (OWA) email access and communications between Microsoft SQL Server and Internet Information Server, between Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) server and IIS, and between ISA and browser clients. It is also used to protect other types of web-based applications, such as web ...