What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?

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What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?..

Answer / guest

SSL is a protocol that sits between the transmission control
protocol and application layer protocols. It provides
authentication and encryption services to the application
layer protocols.

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What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?..

Answer / milind rao(mpbou,bhopal)

SSL(Secure Socket Layer)
It is developed by Netscape.It is Application layer
protocol.
SSL is used for encryption of data for secure data
transmission.

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What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)?..

Answer / allu subash mohan ganesh

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocol
that "provide communications security over the
Internet"[1]. TLS and SSL encrypt the segments of network
connections above the Transport Layer, using symmetric
cryptography for privacy and a keyed message authentication
code for message reliability

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