Hello all,

I'm new to SSL connections so here goes my question.

I have a desktop Java program in a JAR file. This JAR sends sensitive information over the internet to a remote Tomcat server. Of course I need to encrypt the data.

If I purchase an SSL cerfiticate say from Verisign, will the data sent over SSL be automatically encrypted?

I mean in my JAR, will I still need to do extra work like use Java encryption extensions API to manually encrypt my data over the SSL connection?

Thank you.