HTTP Vs HTTPS

Posted by MohdSohail on Jan 5, 2021 9:55 PM EDT
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Unlike HTTP that has no security measures to protect the data flowing from the client to the server, HTTPS has it covered. So HTTPS uses this thing called public-key cryptography and doesn’t worry as it is not from another planet. Public key cryptography is a fairly simple concept. We have 2 mathematically related yet distinct and unique keys that are generated, one of them is the private key(to decrypt data) and the other one is a public key(to encrypt data). The private key, as it sounds, is private and only available to the owner of the website, and the public key, on the other hand, is available to anyone who wishes to access the website.

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