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What is the difference between SSL and S-HTTP?

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What is the difference between SSL and S-HTTP?
posted Dec 6, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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SSL: Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, Web pages that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http

**S HTTP:** Secure-HTTP is the protocol used for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard

answer Dec 6, 2015 by Kali Mishra
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