Abstract: Secure Socket Layer protocol has been widely used in network security. The majority of current SSL protocols is based on certificate. New non-certificate cryptosystems represented by Identity-based cryptosystem can reduce the computation overhead and network load while ensuring high security, and avoiding the management of certificates. A new SSL protocol based on identity-based cryptosystem is proposed, and it is implemented using OpenSSL library and PBC library. The analysis of the communication shows that the proposed identity-based cryptosystem can establish a secure SSL connection without the certificate operation.

Key words: identity-based encryption, SSL, certificate, security