Thursday, December 13, 2018

SSL Certificate Makes the Internet Safer Than Ever Before

Nowadays It has become very common to share private and sensitive information over the internet due to various reasons like online shopping, membership forms for availing various services over the net or paying home rent; the list can go on and on.  This sensitive information may include your bank login ID, credit card details, home address, and even E-mail password.

Although, as individuals, we do take some sort of security measures like firewalls, antivirus that is not enough. It is basically a one-sided security solution. But neglecting server-side security will be a big blunder. When we access the internet, the connection between the server and various computer system is involved. When we transfer data, it travels over various networks until it reaches its destination.



Importance Of SSL Certificate And Web Encryption

There are cases where hackers managed to crack the legitimate non-secure Wi-Fi network using special software or bugs inside a router. This may worry you but there is a solution to everything and in this case, using HTTPS protocol is the best solution to avoid such incidence to occur.

HTTPS certificate ensures a secure and encrypted connection as it offers point-to-point encryption. You may wonder what it means and how it protects your data. Well, point-to-point encryption means that all the data being transferred is encrypted using a strong encryption algorithm before sending to the destination server. By using a special key, which is shared only with the destination server, the encrypted data can be decrypted. No other machine can decrypt the data.

How SSL Certificate Makes The Internet Safer?

Set of protocols is used to provide high-level security to the data being transferred over the net. These protocols are:

1. HTTP
2. SSL
3. TCP



Together it makes a strong protocol, commonly known as HTTPS protocol. Data before being sent to its destination is encrypted by SSL and then sent over the web via TCP/IP. SSL is compatible with other protocols, therefore works well without affecting their working.

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