What are HTTPS and its usefulness
In our daily use of the Internet, a large amount of data from the various sites we visit moves from hosts to the small screen in front of each user and vice versa. The transition is often through the most common HTTP protocol used in small sites for data transmission over the World Wide Web, HTTP is the abbreviation for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which we always see before the URL we visit HTTP: //, but we often notice that the letter S is at the end of the protocol to be https: //. What is the difference between the two?
The first type of data is simply transmitted in an unencrypted and easy to penetrate way. This data can be viewed by Internet service providers as well as easily accessible when using public networks. Therefore, HTTP is commonly used in sites that provide general information, The transmission of any sensitive data from and to the user because the disclosure of such data by any party would not be a danger to all parties. The HTTPS protocol, the last letter of which refers to Secured, uses SSL Secure Sockets Layer technology, The technique is named after Transport Layer Security, known as TLS, as stated in an article in Intel Technical Magazine 2009, so this protocol is used in many major sites where information is transmitted Confidentiality, especially those related to payments and credit card transactions. I have previously talked about the security and privacy of e-payments and purchases regarding the importance of ensuring that the letter S exists especially when making credit card transactions and that the use is only for known and reliable sites or through the bank Global electronic such as PayPal and Skrill and others.
But in recent years, it seems to have been tight and attractive, with some denying that SSL is safe enough or at least not as high as users think it is too high. The last of these was a study by some people at the University of California that analyzed the risk Transfer of evidence via HTTPS adds further controversy about this technique.
A quick review found that there was a different argument about this technology. One specialist, Peter Eckersley, mentioned that there is a possibility of an attack on HTTPS and its penetration, and it may also occur that one of the ways that may cause the security vulnerability of this protocol is the presence of more than 600 issuers of SSL certificates The technique on which the secure protocol is based.
The question remains: is HTTPS really reliable? If there is a possibility to break through the secure connection, it means that we face a real risk when sending and receiving sensitive data such as credit cards and passwords for our various accounts, but we can not judge the protocol negatively or positively because this is the job of specialists in this field who are themselves different On this technology, days may be able to show other developments that favor one or two new developments in encryption technologies soon.