What is SSL?

The SSL or the Secure Sockets Layer is a highly used protocol for managing the security of the internet message transmission. Recently, it has been succeeded by the Transport Layer Security based on the SLL. Moreover, SSL uses a program layer in between the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and the TCP (Transport Control Protocol) layers. The SSL is included as part of both the Netscape or the Microsoft browsers and most of the products on the Web server.

The SSL, being developed by the Netscape has gained greater support of the Microsoft as well as the other Internet server or client developer and then became the actual standard right until evolving into the Transport Layer Security. Apart from those, the sockets, as part of the term mainly refers to the method of sockets when it comes to passing the data back and forth in between the server program and the client in the network or even in between the program layers in similar computer. The SSL makes use of the private public key encryption system from the RSA that mainly includes the use of the digital certificate. Both SSL and TLS are integral parts of most of the web browsers as well as the servers.