HTTP’ or ‘HTTPS’ -which is more secure?
What does the extra ‘s’ stands for?
What is HTTP?
HTTP’ stands for ‘HyperText Transfer Protocol’ . It is a client server protocol. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for World Wide Web.
In simple words, HTTP establishes communication between different systems to transfer the hypertext from client-end to the server-end. It basically allows the transmission of data from a web server to a web browser in order to display web pages to the users.
Challenges to HTTP
Whichever data we send or browse from browse from server, http makes the data communication possible, but a threat in this type of situation is connection is open and the linkup is in the form of plane text, means if some hacker decides to monitor ones computer, If he tries to trace our data packets, he will be able to know on which website one is working very easily. It doesn’t affects much in normal case but the highly confidential data for example, our debit card details while shopping from different sites, our log in credentials to various sites.
The concept of Secured HTTP
Here arises the concept of ‘https’ where the ‘s’ stands for ‘secure’. i.e. the linkup made between web server and web browser is encrypted and secure. If in case a hacker tries to track the package and he gets succed in doing so, he would not be able to get the information because the form is encrypted.
Now-a-days, we can see ‘https’ everywhere mainly in social sites, banking sites etc. here is an example of ‘https’ .It is the same site address where I am currently working and another one is the www.google.com .
Secured HTTP protects the data by using security protocols. One of these protocols is SSL(Secure Sockets Layer). When computer is connects to website using SSL ,computers web browser asks the website to identify yourself, the web server sends a copy of SSL certificate which is a digital cetificate to authenticate websites. Once the identity is confirmed and the website is found to be safe, data is send in encrypted form, and communocation takes place. One more example of security protocol is TLS(Transport Layer Security).
Day by day, Many revolutionary ways of data communnication are getting invented that are making it simpler and secure. ‘https’ is one of the example of that. In the world of rising cyber threats one must go for secure communication because security in any communication matters a lot!!
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