All about https and SSL that you need to know

Asymmetric and Symmetric Encryption

SSL - Secure Socket Layer

SSL was superseded by TLS - Transport Layer Security

HTTP over TLS

Works in the Transport Layer of the OSI stack

Basics: https://github.com/ssllabs/research/wiki/SSL-and-TLS-Deployment-Best-Practices

SSL Termination - the process of decrypting the encrypted traffic before passing it along