A few days ago, my wife asked me: "why is it, sometimes when I access my web-mail account at work, I get a scary browser popup threatening and yelling at me that the site is dangerous and I should click 'OK'...?". I am pretty sure this post will answer her question. SSL without Sweating Although SSL is very popular and well documented on many web articles, blogs, books & technical videos, when trying to really understand and assemble all the bits and bytes, you will probably find yourself breaking a sweat, because of the many misconceptions about this subjects. In this article I am going to give a brief top-to-bottom review of the must-know parts of SSL and try to re-explain the less familiar parts of this protocol. In order to make it easy for those of you that are familiar with SSL and only want to read the 'Hot' parts, I added an '*' as prefix to those points, so you guys can jump between them. ...
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