Let us Encrypt with SSL

Secure your websites

Rishab Batra
3 min readJan 31, 2022

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. Its purpose is to establish an encrypted link between the two systems. SSL ensures the data transfer between the two systems remains encrypted and private.
SSL establishes an encrypted link using an SSL certificate.

You can see above the interaction between HTTP and HTTPS. With HTTP the information is transferred in hypertext format whereas in HTTPS the information is transferred in encrypted form.
HTTPS can prevent hackers from stealing your crucial information. You don’t want someone to get easy access to the content written in your emails, messages, etc. So, whenever you are building any new website make sure it is protected by SSL certificates.

HTTPS uses port 443 and HTTP uses port 80.

For example- when you visit any website example a medium.com

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You have seen a lock before the URL which indicates the connection is secure and the website is encrypted with SSL certificates. A lock is telling you that your information is safe and secure.

No third party can steal or misuse any information. They can only find a set of random strings if they try to steal which can never be decrypted. Only recipients know how to decipher the encrypted information.

How does Public Key Encryption work?

It uses authenticity certificates and public and private keys to establish a secure session between the browser and web server. This encryption technique uses unique keys to encrypt and decrypt data passing between a website server and browser.

The server sends a certificate with the public key to the browser and then the browser validates that public key to the server, by saying, hey buddy I trust this certificate with an encrypted message to the server. After the Decryption of the message, an acknowledgment is sent to the browser by the server that It will initiate an SSL connection with the user and you can share whatever you want with ease.

SSL fundamentally works with the following concepts:

In its early years, SSL was only used by online banking sites. SSL was introduced by Netscape in 1994. Version 1.0 of SSL was never released because it had serious security flaws. Originally developed for securing communications between a Web server and Web browsers regardless of the operating system.

By the early 2010s, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all used SSL encryption for their websites and online services. More recently, there has been a movement toward making the use of SSL universal.

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