Secure Sockets Layer (SSL):

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a general-purpose standard for providing encrypted and authenticated service over the Internet. Primarily used for handling commerce payments, SSL enables you to encrypt specific TCP/IP ports by using the Rivest Shamir and Adleman (RSA) public key, a public key cryptography for Internet security.

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