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JacobT
JacobT

Reputation: 3141

What does SSL do for web applications

Does SSL provide any type of security other than simply encrypting the content of the HTTP request for web applications?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 789

Answers (2)

Danny Maya
Danny Maya

Reputation: 56

An addition to @cobbal, only organization-validated certificates validate who you really are. Almost 90% of the certificates in the market are domain-validated and they don't validate anything (that's why they are much cheaper).

Upvotes: 0

cobbal
cobbal

Reputation: 70703

SSL does 2 things:

  • verifies that the site is who they say they are (to prevent man in the middle attacks)
  • encrypts the traffic between the client and the server

Upvotes: 6

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