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ALSO CALLED: Hypertext Transfer Protocol and Hypertext Transport Protocol
DEFINITION: HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, or HTTP over SSL) is a Web protocol developed by Netscape and built into its browser that encrypts and decrypts user page requests as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server.
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HTTP DEFINITION (continued): … HTTPS is really just the use of Netscape's Secure Socket Layer ( SSL) as a sublayer under its regular HTTP application layering. (HTTPS uses port 443 instead of HTTP port 80 in its interactions with the lower layer, TCP/IP.) SSL uses a 40-bit key size for the RC4 stream encryption algorithm, which is considered an adequate degree of encryption for commercial exchange. Suppose you use a Netscape browser to visit a Web site to view …
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