This is a slide deck from a talk I gave at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup about SSL/HTTPS. It covers the basics on what it SSL is, if you should be using it, and how to enable it on your WordPress site.
5. Overview
• What is SSL?
• SSL growth
• When should you use SSL?
• Cost of an SSL certificate
• Enabling SSL in WordPress
• Common pitfalls
• Benefits
• SSL tools
• Further reading
9. What is SSL? (via Wikipedia)
• HTTPS (also called HTTP over TLS,[1][2] HTTP
over SSL,[3] and HTTP Secure[4][5]) is
a protocol for secure communication over
a computer network which is widely used on
the Internet. HTTPS consists of communication
over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) within a
connection encrypted by Transport Layer
Security, or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer.
The main motivation for HTTPS
is authentication of the visited website and
protection of the privacy and integrity of the
exchanged data.