11/11/1994
Marc Andreesson sets Netscape to work by making sure that sensitive data transmitted over the web was encrypted for security. The answer was SSL, or Secure Socket Layer. It wasn't long that SSL became the industry standard.
However, version 1.0 was never publicly released. Version 2.0 was released in February 1995 but contained a number of security flaws which ultimately led to the design of SSL version 3.0. SSL version 3.0, released in 1996, was a complete redesign of the protocol produced by Paul Kocher working with Netscape engineers Phil Karlton and Alan Freier. The basic algorithm for SSL was written by Taher Elgamal, the Chief Scientist of Netscape. Taher was recognized as the "inventor of SSL".