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HTML
9 lines
584 B
HTML
<!-- Reading School 2018, HTML page by Matthew Grove, Year 10 -->
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<h2>HTTPS</h2>
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<p>
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HTTPS is the 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure', which means that it is a variation on the HTTP protocol - except it uses a secure socket layer
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(SSL) - an encryption protocol invoked by an HTTPS request, that enables authentication and encryption on the webpage being visited. SSL is
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essentially the usage of ‘digital passports’, and it functions by ‘hopping onto’ TCP protocols. It does not resend ‘lost’ packets or
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‘miscommunicated' data, because this increases security.
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</p>
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