: Encryption is just a way to convert a human readable string into something that is not readable by humans for example I'm going to pass an input hidden field in a particular form and it's

@Yeniel560

Encryption is just a way to convert a human readable string into something that is not readable by humans for example I'm going to pass an input hidden field in a particular form and it's actually an email, for security purposes I have to convert the whole email string into something not readable for humans (this is where encryption happens) so that I could avoid hackers from hacking other accounts but when the form is passed to the application server the encrypted data which is not readable to humans will be decrypted meaning getting it back to it's original form which is readable again and do the process needed.

While SSL works the same with encryption the difference only is that the whole data submitted are encrypted and it's more complicated than just encrypting a single string like encryption of email etc to be more specific it's actually a protocol same as http, ftp, sftp etc. I could not explain it well but I guess this article might explain it more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer.
I hope this helps you. ;)

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