"SSL," which is an acronym for Secure Socket Layer, facilitates fully-encrypted two-way communications sessions between two computers.  It is commonly used by web sites to provide private two-way communications to users, with the most notable example being to protect the secrecy of online banking activities.

See also Cryptography Encryption Privacy Secret TLS

External resources OpenSSL

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