What Is SSL (Secure Socket Layer)?

This section provides a quick introduction of the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol, which provides security protection on data being transferred over the Internet.

What is SSL (Secure Socket Layer)? SSL is a communication protocol created by Netscape in 1994 to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers. A good description about SSL was given by Franck Martin in "SSL Certificates HOWTO" at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SSL-Certificates-HOWTO:

The latest version of SSL is version 3.0 which was defined in 1996. A new protocol called Transport Layer Security (TLS) has been developed to replace SSL.

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 About This JDK Tutorial Book

 JDK (Java Development Kit)

 Java Date-Time API

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 Cipher - Encryption and Decryption

The SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Protocol

What Is SSL (Secure Socket Layer)?

 SSL Specification Overview

 JSSE - Java Implementation of SSL and TLS

 SslSocketTest.java - Default SSL Socket Factory Test

 SslContextTest.java - javax.net.ssl.SSLContext Class Test

 Initializing SSLContext with PKCS12 File

 SSL Socket Communication Testing Programs

 SSL Client Authentication

 HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

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