What is SSL?

It stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is the standard by which secure transactions takes place online. It relies on encryption to keep things secure.

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Relevant links:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html

If you are interested in looking into this further you will need to look into encryption (which isn't that difficult). Here is a good site:
http://developer.netscape.com/tech/security/ssl/howitworks.html

see also this simple explanation of SSL:
http://support.acmeinternet.com/howtofaqs/ecommerce/ssl-howitworks.htm

and a simple explantion of encryption (which touches on SSL on page 2):
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption.htm

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Relevant discussion:

Protocol

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(Added by: Emperor on Fri 02-Apr-2004)