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The "S" in HTTPS indicates a secure site. If you visit a web site or web page, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://. This means that the web site is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecured' language. In other If you fill out a form on the web site, someone might see the information you send to that site. This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http web site! But if the web address begins with https://, your computer is talking to the web site in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

If a web site ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should look to see if the web address begins with https://. If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number!

May 23rd, 2014 ADDENDUM:

Before the important informational contributions of Mr. Edward Snowden, it was generally believed the above to be essentially factual. Today however, it

is possible that even TLS/SSL encryption does not guarantee cryptographic

integrity of messages, unfortunately. In all respects, the author of the above answer is, we believe, correct.

Unfortunately, there are other ways to intercept and read date in transit via mechanisms such as the MitM (Man in the Middle) attack, even without the involvement of the NSA.

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HTTPS is secure (hence the S). This means it's an encrypted connection, so (theoretically) the data cannot be read by anyone except you and the intended recipient (the server).

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Https also known as "hypertext transfer protocol secure" is more secure than httpas the name suggests.

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