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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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decrypt the incoming data. These public keys are sent in the form of a digital

certificate. This certificate is signed by a trusted certificate authority (CA)

that guarantees that the public key you are about to get is actually from the

Web server and not from some evil person trying to pretend to be the Web

server. A number of companies issue digital certificates, such as Symantec

(formerly VeriSign), Comodo, and many others.

NOTE HTTPS originally meant HTTP over SSL, so the “S” in HTTPS

made grammatical sense. Most Web sites use the more robust TLS to encrypt

connections. The Internet people just quietly switched TLS for SSL, but

didn’t make a new acronym such as “HTTPT.”

Your Web browser has a built-in list of trusted certificate authorities,

referred to as trusted root CAs. If a certificate comes in from a Web site that

uses one of these highly respected companies, you won’t see anything happen

in your browser; you’ll just go to the secure Web page, where a small lock

icon will appear in the browser status bar or address bar. Figure 27-38 shows

the list of trusted certificate authorities built into the Firefox Web browser.

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