{"id":1855,"date":"2020-06-08T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T02:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:31:28","slug":"what-is-ssl-and-how-it-work","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/what-is-ssl-and-how-it-work","title":{"rendered":"What is SSL and How it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQEUVYLm3K9Zug\/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280\/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280\/0\/1727500829605?e=2147483647&amp;v=beta&amp;t=OTfJiV2sSrraggOfCJuJ3LtUuUoAGJspmOgFpY-_ZI4\" alt=\"SSL\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>What is SSL and How it work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)<\/strong> is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. This protocol is Netscape to develop for transmitting private documents via the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>SSL works by using a public-and-private key encryption system from RSA to encrypt data that\u2019s transfer over internet. In addition, it is secures user\u2019s website by encrypting information and providing authentication.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, many browsers including Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL. Many web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers (e-commerce). By convention, web pages that require a connection start with\u00a0<strong>https:\/\/<\/strong>\u00a0instead of\u00a0<strong>http:\/\/<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SSL and How it work? The SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. This protocol is Netscape to develop for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a public-and-private key encryption system from RSA to encrypt data that\u2019s transfer over internet. In addition,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[47],"kbtag":[1131],"class_list":["post-1855","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-ssl","kbtag-ssl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1855\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}