Secure your Sites ( SSL) in plesk
People who visit your website require an affirmation that the purchases they confidently make from you can be trusted. Therefore every online business must establish a secure environment trusted by its potential customers. Secure connections are marked by an icon looking like a padlock and it ensures that the site is encrypted between the website and the client (browser).
Many might raise a question of how SSL ensures connection but worry less. When data is transmitted between the client and server, there are symmetric keys created( public, private keys and session keys) that encrypt data instantly although this is invisible to the users. The process is called SSL handshake. The public(encrypts) and private(decrypts) data but the session keys ensures that all transmitted data is encrypted in that SSLhandshake. The certificate Authority digitally signs the SSL certificate.
How It Works;
Browser asks the Server to identify itself- the server responds with a copy of SSL- browser confirms the certificate from other entrusted with a certificate authority. If it’s valid, it sends it back with symmetric session key -server decrypts it with its private key and responds with an acknowledgement using session key-finally both server and browser data gets encrypted.
