- **Epistemic status:** #seedlings First developed by Netscape in 1995 to ensure that communication between the client and server was secure and private. SSL is the predecessor to the modern TLS that we use today. When a website has SSL/TLS implemented in the URL, it will say HTTPS instead of HTTP. ![[http-vs-https.svg]] --- ## References - Cloudflare. “What Is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)?” Accessed August 26, 2022. <https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-ssl/>.