Friday, March 14, 2008

How does SSL work?

1. Browser checks the certificate to make sure that the site you are connecting to is the real site and not someone intercepting.
2. Determine encryption types that the browser and web site server can both use to understand each other.
3. Browser and Server send each other unique codes to use when scrambling (or encrypting) the information that will be sent.
4. The browser and Server start talking using the encryption, the web browser shows the encrypting icon, and web pages are processed secured.

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