HTTPS advantages

The first, and often only, feature you will think of when someone asks about SSL or HTTPS is encryption. This is a good reason to use HTTPS, but it is not the only reason, and not even the most important reason.

HTTPS gives us three security properties:

• Identity: Certificate proves the server is the real server
• Confidentiality: Only the browser and server can read the data being passed between them
• Integrity: The sent data is what the other party receives