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About SSL

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol for encrypting and decrypting data sent across direct internet connections. When a client makes an SSL connection with a server, all data sent to and from that server is encoded with a complex mathematical algorithm that makes it difficult to decode anything that is intercepted. For more information, see Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

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