How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate for Apache
Normal Web traffic is sent over the Internet. This means that anyone with access to the right tools, you can snoop all this traffic. Of course, this can lead to problems, in particular where security and privacy, it is necessary, as for example in the data bank and credit card transactions. Secure Socket Layer is used to encrypt the data stream between a Web server and Web client.
SSL makes use of what is known as asymmetric cryptography, also known as public key cryptography (PKI). With
