What is SSL

The home page of my personal banking site (http://www.zionsbank.com) comes up as a non-secure page. This leads me to beleive that when I enter my username and password, and idiot with a packet-sniffer could see it.

The web site claims that they connect using SSL before after I press send, but befire they send the info.

Is it really possible to send something from my non-secure browser through secure pipelines if a SSL session is not set up at first?

This question was answered on February 3, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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Yes it is possible, SSL works by using a public key to encrypt data that's that transferred over the SSL connection SSL a protocol used for transmitting private documents via the Internet.

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Posted by Eugene of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on February 3, 2003

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