SSL

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
* Using Digital Certificate, Digital Signature, Public Key Encryption, Hash (Message Digest)
* Instead of encrypting the sender's original text, only the session key generated by the sender is encrypted by the receiver's public key.
* The session key is valid throughout a session and not any longer.
* SSL is proposed by Netscape, Inc.
* https is actually http enhanced by SSL. https uses port 443 while http uses port 80.