The SSL standard was developed by Netscape in collaboration with Mastercard, Bank of America' MCL and Silicon Graphics

It is the simplest attack method for breaking any encryption.

To ensure the security of data transmission over the internet.

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a security protocol for electronic payments.

To link the financial authorization process with an online authentication system.

To increase the level of transaction security.

3-D Secure is a secure payment protocol on the Internet.

3D-Secure was developed by Visa

Digital signatures are used to verify the trust worthiness of the data being sent

Digital certificates are used to verify the Trust worthiness of the sender.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP): Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.

It was introduced by Federal Information Processing Standard (FPS).

It was introduced in America in the year 1976.

The Data Encryption Standard (DES)is a Symmetric key data encryption method.

(i) SSL is a hybrid encryption protocol for securing transactions over the Internet.
(ii) The SSL standard was developed by Netscape in collaboration with MasterCard, Bank of America, MCI and Silicon Graphics.
(iii) It is based on a public key cryptography process to ensure the security of data transmission over the internet.
(iv) Its principle is to establish a secure communication channel (encrypted) between a client and a server after an authentication step.