Which method is primarily used to protect sensitive information during data transmission?

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1. **Secure Socket Layer (SSL)**, now succeeded by TLS (Transport Layer Security), is a cryptographic protocol designed to secure communication between web servers and browsers by encrypting data during transmission.

2. This encryption prevents unauthorized parties from intercepting or accessing sensitive information such as login credentials, payment details, and private communications.

3. **Decryption** is the process of converting encrypted data back into readable form but is not itself a method to protect data during transmission.

4. **Compression** reduces the size of data for efficient transmission but does not provide any security or encryption.

5. **Hashing** is used to verify data integrity by generating a fixed-size hash value but does not encrypt or protect the data during transmission.

**Answer:** Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

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