What is secured sucket layer and what is the requirement of
its in networking

Answer Posted / praveen rai

The secure socket layer protocol runs above the TCP/IP and
below higher level protocols such as HTTP or IMAP .SSL uses
TCP/IP on behalf of other higher protocols and in the
process allows and ssl enabled server to authenticate itlsef
to an ssl enabled client the client then atthenticates
itself to the server and both machine establish an encrypted
connection ssl works on port 443 .

there are two sub protocols for ssl record layer protocol
and handshake protocol .the later version of ssl is call tls
now

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