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US 5657390

How Netscape Created the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for Web Security

Netscape's 1995 patent defining the architecture for SSL, the foundational technology that allows browsers to securely transmit encrypted data over the internet.

Statusexpired

Granted1997

Expires2015

Claims6

Forward citations383

Prior art2

AssigneeNetscape Communications Corp

InventorsKipp E. B. Hickman, Taher Elgamal

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