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Today alone, Dell Computer will sell more than $18 million worth of computer equipment through the Internet. In 1999, nine million Americans traded stocks online, accounting for one-third of all retail stock trades. And more than 200,000 Web sites worldwide (including sites belonging to 98 of the Fortune 100 ) can accept e-commerce transactions. Commercial use of the Web continues to grow at an astonishing pace, and securing Web transactions has become increasingly critical to businesses, organizations, and individual users. Fortunately, an extremely effective and widely deployed communica- tions protocol provides exactly that security. It is the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, more commonly known simply as ssl. The ssl protocol along with its successor, the Transport Layer Security (tls) protocol is the subject of this book.