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Secure Web Access: HTTP over SSL (https://)
- SLL enables general-purpose secure and/or authenticated connections
- Simplest use encrypts all data in transit, end-to-end, without authentication
- If server has X.509 certificate, can authenticate itself to user
- Use can authenticate by name-and-password over SSL
- ... or user can authenticate with personal X.509 certificate
- Implemented by (almost) all browsers
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