SSL certificates and how they work

Ashan Priyadarshana
6 min readAug 13, 2018

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it’s a protocol that is used to secure (encrypt) the data transition between a user and a server (website). Hence it increase the users trust on the web application — giving sense of a secure connection.

Photo by Hussan Amir on Unsplash

Say you are developing an awesome web application. Then it should have a some sort of certification (given by a well known public authority) to prove your users…

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Ashan Priyadarshana

Associate Technical Lead | BSc. Information Technology | MSc. Artificial Intelligence | Founder Programming.lk | GSoC 2017 |