Stanford University: John Mitchell and Jason Franklin's "SSL/TLS Case Study"
Review this presentation. HTTPS is a secure version of HTTP. We implement HTTPS--which relies on two protocols in the TC/IP stack (TLS and SSL)--in all websites and Web Servers where information exchange must be secure.
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