Is port 80 secure?

[Unclemo]

This may be a dumb question😕... but is port 80 secure? On one of my PCs I have 80 as my secure port number for IE. Thanks

 

[Saltin]

Port 80 is not secure. It is used by HTTP
Port 443 is used by HTTPS. The S at the end stands for secure 😀

 

[Unclemo]

THen is port 9092 secure? That's my last question and then I will let this die. Thanks again.

 

[Unclemo]

sorry double... I think my secure settings are all messed up. Of course I am using Starband so my connection is always faulty...

 

[Garion]

Different applications open different TCP ports for their use. To ask if one is secure or not depends on the app. If the BackOrifice trojan is listening on port 2038, no that's not secure. If the SSH daemon is listening on port 2038 then yes, that's pretty secure.


There are some standards - IE, http listens on port 80, https on 443, FTP on port 21, SMTP on 25, etc. The security of these apps depends on what server is being used? IIS on port 80? Not really very secure? Apache? Much better.

In short, it depends on the app that's listening, not the specific port.

- G