SSL support and the Certificate Verification Engine (CVE)

SSL and TLS are the standard protocols used by HTTPS to establish secure connections and transmit secure data on the Internet.

A primary feature of SSL/TLS is the connection handshake. At the onset of establishing an HTTPS connection, the certificate verification process verifies that the Certificate Authority (CA) certificates offered by the origin servers are legitimate and meet the configured set of verification conditions. See Common verification checks.

When the handshake is successful, a secure connection is established and encrypted content is passed.