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SSL Handshake Simple Definition

Posted on February 3, 2017

Simple definition of how the SSL handshake works:

The SSL uses asymmetric encryption to privately share the common password to be used later in the communication for symmetric encryption.

SSL Handshake:

  1. The client initiates the connection and says he wants to connect with the server.
  2.  The server sends the certificates to the client with a “public key”.
  3.  The client receives the official certificate / check if it’s valid then uses that public key (sent from the server) to encrypt a secret password (for symmetric encryption) for communication.
  4.  The server receives that encrypted message and uses his “private key” to decrypt it, then he uses the password for encrypting/decrypting the communication using “Symmetric encryption”.

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