Published August 29th, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran
More on How SSL Works
A commenter on my previous How SSL works post, pointed me towards the SSL explanation from Chris Shiflett’s HTTP Developer’s Handbook chapter on SSL which is a really nice explanation of SSL (including public/private and symetric key encryption.
An elegant solution to these types of problems is SSL, Secure Sockets Layer. In 1994, Netscape released the specification of Secure Sockets Layer. By 1995, version 3.0 of SSL was released, and it has since taken the Web by storm. SSL has dramatically changed the way people use the Web, and it provides a very good solution to many of the Web’s shortcomings