What Is SSL Certificate And How Can You Implement It On A Website?

SSL Certificate is a document which can be used for creating an encrypted channel between the client and the server. It is important to encrypt the data such as credit card details, account login information and other sensitive information while doing transmission of such data so as to prevent spying. You can use an ISL certificate to encrypt the data while transferring it through the internet. 

The data you have encrypted can only be encrypted through the server which you have used to send the data. SSL Encryption has to be done to make sure that the data you are submitting to the websites will not get stolen. This has been announced by Google that if you have installed an SSL certificate on your website, your ranking position will be increased. This is going to be another reason for which you should consider SSL.

The SSL certificate signifies base 64 encoded data that has the information about the entity for which the certificate was issued, public key required for encryption and digital signature verification which is created by the private key of the certificate issuer. An SSL certificate needs to be installed on the server as this ensures SSL Security. When you will access a website secured by an SSL certificate, you will see https:// at the beginning of the URL

To Set up HTTP SSL on your website, follow the steps given below:

1. SSL certificate requires a dedicated IP address for your website. This is because it will ensure that the traffic going to that IP is for your website only and no one else’s.
   
   
2. The next step is to buy an SSL certificate for your website which will contain a password that is known only by your website. When someone will visit your website via HTTPS, the 
   password will be checked and if it matches, it will verify that website is for real and will also encrypt the entire data which will ensure the Website Security.
   
   
3. Next, you have to get your certificate activated and for this purpose, you can let the web host do it for you. Before proceeding you are required to check with them.
   
   
4. After getting the certificate activated, you need to install it. You can do it yourself by pasting it into your web host control panel.
   
   
5. As the last step, you have to go to your website and if it is loading then the process is complete.