Web server security through SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
As it is well known that the Intranets and internet are purely based on use of powerful web servers to deliver information to the users, the username/ password authentication pair has been a highly popular method for preventing access to the web servers. Problem arises with the use of such pairs when these keys are sent in the form of character/text strings, which are prone to be intercepted, read and converted with simple tools.