SSL

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Secure Sockets Layer. A technology used on the Internet to secure web pages and transactions by means of public key cryptography. A digitally secure communications channel is established between the server and the client after which all data is encrypted. Message integrity is provided by the use of digital signatures, and trust in an individual or a website is ascertained by using digital certificates which are signed by a Certificate Authority acting as a "trusted third party". The encryption strength used in SSL is 40-bit and 128 bit. Before using SSL in eCommerce, you'll need to get a certificate from a Certificate Authority like Verisign, Thawte, InstantSSL

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