secure sockets layer

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secure sockets layer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Secure Sockets Layer
  
     <networking, security> (SSL) A protocol designed by
     Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure
     communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption
     .  SSL is layered beneath application protocols
     such as HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, FTP, Gopher and NNTP
     and is layered above the connection protocol TCP/IP.  It is
     used by the HTTPS access method.
  
     (2007-05-25)