An insecurity study into the use of SSL certificates has revealed that it is about as effective as an English team preventing a German striker from getting a ball in the back of the net.Security research firm Qualys scanned 119 million domain names, but found that only 92 million were active. More than 12.4 million domains failed to resolve properly and 14.6 million failed to respond.Of the active domains that did respond, nearly 34 million responded to the Qualys scan on both port 80 and port 443. Port 80 is typically used for HTTP while port 443 is typically used for HTTPS-, SSL-secured Websites.

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