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TLS

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. The protocol is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, and voice over IP, but its use in securing HTTPS remains the most publicly visible.
wikipedia:: Transport Layer Security
  • New versions of SSL are renamed TLS
    • when the time came to update from SSLv3.0, instead of calling the new version SSLv4.0, it was renamed TLSv1.0. 
    • Some people still use term "SSL" when referring to TLS
  • TLS 1 & 1.1 deprecated by 2020.
  • TLS 1.2 minimum required for HTTP2
  • TLS 1.2 on about 95% of browsers as of 2018
  • TLS 1.3 finalized 2018
  • TLS resides on the Application Layer of the OSI model. 
  • private/public key based encryption
  • HTTPS
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