SSL and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), which encrypt data exchanged between two machines, are at the heart of web security. Signified by "https" in the browser URL, they underpin almost all Web transactions that requires privacy
Companies and organisations are using more and more SSL certificates as the need for secure machine-to-machine communication has increased with cloud computing, virtualisation and mobile devices,

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