You may be aware that using SSL communications a HTTP server can have encryption for us, in this regard certificates must be authorized for server authentication. Microsoft recommends that you can do this by either obtaining an SSL certificate from a certificate-issuing authority, such as Verisign, or...
Within SQL Server 2005 you could take help of certificates to restrict the access from a particular client's machine. Few times (even me) confused with or get an impression that SSL encryption is same, for more information on SSL( Secure Sockets Layer) refer to KBA316898 in this case. There is much...
Continuation to the BlogPost on issuing or configuring SQL Servers to use certificates, I have found useful reference on Technet blogs - Mr. Cert’s side of the story ....( read more )