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What is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)? (easy words)

Asked by kiki__ (99points) March 16th, 2015

who can explain what SSL means? Please in easy words.

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Easy words.

SSL is a method of scrambling (or encrypting) web communications so that the only people that can read it are the sender and the receiver. To everyone else it is gobbledegook.

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It is more complicated than that, of course.

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