What Is The Full Form Of SSL?
The Full Form Of SSL is Secure Sockets Layer.
The Secure Socket Layer is a protocol that provides security to confidential data following the encryption process over the internet. To provide data privacy, secure connection between the server and the browser is created. The SSL-certified website contains a padlock before the URL of the website, which indicates that the website is secure to perform the transactions.
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To ensure data integrity, privacy and authentication, in 1995 Netscape developed an encryption-based Internet security protocol called SSL, Secure Sockets Layer.
Advantages
- Security: The main goal of SSL is to provide security to the data or information by encryption. The data traveling through the internet is always at high risk of getting lost. Thus, SSL encrypts the data so that even if the data is received by a third party they will not understand it.
- Authentication: When the data travels on the internet, it has chances to get accessed by a third party. To ensure authentication the SSL uses a Server certificate that makes sure that the SSL certificate provider is an authorized one to establish the connection between the SSL server and browser.
- Reliability: The SSL certificate verifies to the visitor if the website visited is legitimate and not fake. Thus, the visitor can easily trust and rely on the website.
- Software Requirements: SSL doesn’t require any specific client software to be installed. It only needs an internet connection and web browser. Thus, in this manner it can be cost effective.
Disadvantages
- Performance: When a site uses the SSL certificate, the data transaction speed gets affected. As the data gets encrypted and decrypted, the performance goes down.
- Expiry: The SSL certificate needs to be renewed from time to time. If it is not renewed then the performance gets affected.
- Application Support: Initially, the SSL was meant to support web-based applications. In addition, the setup process is complex.
