How Secure Socket Layer Works?

What does the word "secure" mean? It means safe, isn't it? Safe to go in and do your business and to go out and go on your way. Have you seen a security guard lately? The fellow with a nice hat, ironed clothes, shiny shoes and having a classy baton while sporting those set of killer eyes? With that kind of guard on duty you will always feel safe, and no harm will ever come in your way.

That is for the physical world. What about inside the World Wide Web? I am sure that bad guys are also present inside the cyberspace. With the tons of financial transactions going on, there is no doubt that there's always a hefty criminal salivating over those numbers. See! When it comes to the internet, most payment transactions require the use of credit cards. An online shopper needs to input his credit card number while making a purchase. The real danger is not on the shopper or the shop owner, it is what comes in between. A cyber-criminal can drop in inside the connection and "listen, looking" to the ongoing transaction. When he has "jotted down" what he needs, usually a credit card number, he happily goes out and have a shopping spree (with the victim's credit card number of course).

Eavesdropping or listening to a conversation without any consent is the favorite past time of those opportunistic criminals. Determined individuals who will do anything at their disposal just to get what they want. The more technically inclined they are, the more dangerous they could be.

What you need to do? Hire a virtual security guard? Exactly! System experts found a way to "beam" a security guard to the realms of the wild cyberspace. And we call it SSL. SSL or Secure Socket Layer is the process of securing any online transaction away from those prying eyes with the use of highly advanced encryption forming an invisible cover shielding all the important information needed to process transactions online. That way a cyber-criminal cannot "cut" or "punch" holes on a protected connection.

There are a lot of technicalities involved inside SSL but let us put it this way; all it does is a handshake (Hi! Are you Johnny?), to encrypt data (to wrap), decrypt (unwrap) and validate (It really came from you, how sweet, thanks Johnny!). And if someone tries to intervene (Sorry, it is not for you. It's for me. GUARD!) they will never succeed.

Simple yet effective, that is how SSL works. Charming, isn't it?


Ruby Ann Malixi
Writer and System Analyst

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