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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	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. ------------------------ Relevant links: [URL=http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html]http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html[/URL] 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: [URL=http://developer.netscape.com/tech/security/ssl/howitworks.html]http://developer.netscape.com/tech/security/ssl/howitworks.html[/URL] see also this simple explanation of SSL: [URL=http://support.acmeinternet.com/howtofaqs/ecommerce/ssl-howitworks.htm]http://support.acmeinternet.com/howtofaqs/ecommerce/ssl-howitworks.htm[/URL] and a simple explantion of encryption (which touches on SSL on page 2): [URL=http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption.htm]http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption.htm[/URL] ------------------------ Relevant discussion: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum1/HTML/009038.html]Protocol[/url] ____________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Fri 02-Apr-2004)[/i][/small] Loading...
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