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(From Network Computing Asian Edition)
Byline: David Greenfield
There's been a lot of talk about secure sockets layer (SSL), both in terms of its use for e-commerce, and more recently as a means for connecting remote workers to corporate offices.
In the early days of e-commerce, customers were concerned about online security and exchange of sensitive credit card information.
All of that changed when Netscape Communications developed SSL in 1994, revolutionising the e-commerce world. The protocol provided an independent security layer that could run with sockets-based applications (hence the name). SSL was also expandable, allowing for ...