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Understanding SSL Certificates

Article Category: Internet

Author Name: Daniel Lotts

Security is the primary concern when dealing with personal data over the internet. So, choosing the best security option for your website plays a crucial role in maintaining safety and thus, understanding how Security Socket Lock works and its different types is also considered highly important.

Secure Socket Layer Protocol is responsible for securing transactions between web servers and browsers. This process works through a third party to establish connections between the server and the browser.

SSL certificates act as an identity verifier of both the website and the web server. When both identities are cleared, SSL will establish a secured connection through HTTP. SSL certificates have the following information: owner s name, serial number, certificate s expiration date, public key used for information encryption, and private key for decryption. There are many different kinds of SSL certificates; each of them has different uses and functions:

Dedicated SSL  this is the most common type of SSL certificate as it provides the most secured connection and only verifies targeted root domain through a specific IP address. Naturally, this is also the most expensive type of certificate.

Shared SSL - this is common to web hosts which provide shared hosting because it allows having various domain names pointing to the same IP address. This gives a great advantage to the web host because he only has to manage one SSL which already covers different websites.

Wildcard SSL - this is almost similar to shared SSL. The only difference is that, it targets multiple subdomains for your website. This comes in handy when your website is divided into different functions.

Among these three types of SSL certificates, shared SSL is the most viable option for beginners because of its low cost. However, be sure to upgrade into dedicated SSL when your budget allows you, or when there is a sudden specific need for upgrading.
- How does SSL work?

The verification process of SSL certificates is called the handshake . All steps involved in this process transpire in just a matter of seconds. The whole process works in the following order:

Visitor s web browser requests secure connection from the web server.

The server responds by giving its certificate which will then be verified by the browser for its validity, checking whether it is currently used by the web site which issued it and proving that it was issued by a certificate authority trusted by the browser.

After validation, the browser will have a session where the server s public key will be encrypted immediately. This encryption will also be sent to both the browser and the server.

The server decrypts the session key using a private key. Notice that there is a padlock sign over the browser s status bar which indicates that these four steps are done and the SSL certificates handshake is completed. At this point, establishing a secure connection between the server and the browser is finally possible.

Understanding the gist of how SSL works, how it transfers messages in a millisecond, and how data comes to and from a website is complex; however, it pays to at least understand some of its fundamental processes.

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