{"id":241,"date":"2019-09-02T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webislove.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:08:28","slug":"what-is-ssl-how-to-get-ssl-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webislove.com\/what-is-ssl-how-to-get-ssl-certificate","title":{"rendered":"What is SSL – How to Get and Setup One on Your WordPress Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What is SSL and How Does It Work?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SSL is a secure protocol created to send data securely online without third party snooping around and stealing your personal and credit card information. This protocol protects you (client) browser and the server you’re trying to access to, or between more devices trying to establish a connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This communication is established by what is called a TLS handshake, this handshake confirms that both sides are the actual ones involved in the data transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does SSL stand for?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer, it was developed in Netscape by Taher Elgamal in 1995. It’s main purpose is to secure the connection between the client (you) and the server on insecure networks such as the web we use every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSL successor is TLS or Transparent Layer Security, created in 1999 and is still in use, but term SSL stayed as the main security term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Check If Your Website Is Secure?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It’s pretty simple, look at the url bar and if you see “S”at the end of http, then it’s secure and it will look something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secure website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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unsecure website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or you will get message something like: your connection is not private<\/strong>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What port is ssl?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Since data online can be sent with or without SSL and security protocols, you will probably at some point in time want to know if your informations are secure, and one of the best indicators are PORTS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSl connections use secure port which is 443 and http unsecure protocol uses 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commonly used TCP ports:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Port #<\/strong><\/th>Function<\/strong><\/th><\/tr>
80<\/td>HTTP<\/td><\/tr>
443<\/td>SSL<\/td><\/tr>
21<\/td>FTP<\/td><\/tr>
990<\/td>FTPs<\/td><\/tr>
22<\/td>SFTP \/ SSH<\/td><\/tr>
3306<\/td>MySQL<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

How much is an ssl certificate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I know that this must be the most important part for you, since if you just started out with blogging then you’re looking for the most affordable SSL certificate for your money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certificates that I buy are pretty cheap, and I buy them all on namecheap, you can find PositiveSSL certificate for $8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So SSL certificate pricing starts at $8 and goes over $150\/year for more advanced packages and security.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Types of SSL certificates:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n