what is SSL certificate

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What Is an SSL Certificate

And why it’s important

What Is an SSL Certificate?

A SSL certificate ensures internet security by preventing any potential third party from intercepting, reading, or changing any information you send over the internet.

An online store is a perfect place to use SSL certificates. There are usually a lot of transactions involving credit cards and personally identifiable information. It is possible for a third party to access this sensitive data without SSL certificates.

who gives SSL Certificates

An SSL certificate issued by a certification authority to an organization and its domain/website allows a trusted third party to verify the identity of this organization. Because the browser trusts the CA, the browser now also trusts this organization identity. The browser lets the user know that the site is secure and the user can feel safe while browsing the site and even entering their confidential information.

Once the CA SSL certificate is signed and verified, you can install it on your website to improve security. Installing a central certificate on your server and binding it to your CA root certificate is another great way to increase the trustworthiness of your SSL certificate. Installing the certificate on your server creates a secure SSL connection between your website and the client's browser. Typically, a secure socket layer protocol uses public, private, and session keys to encrypt messages exchanged between a server and a client browser. Public keys help encrypt transmitted data, and the corresponding private key decodes that data. Both keys require considerable computing power and time to encrypt and decrypt. Therefore, these keys are only used to generate a symmetric session key during SSL signing. Once the connection is established, the client browser and application rely on session keys to encrypt messages.

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