December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Similar to the TCP 3-way handshake, in order to establish a secure session through an SSL/TLS protocol, there also occurs a handshake between the client and server before the data is transmitted.
This handshake is important to set up a secret key between the client and server, which will then be used to encrypt all the data across the session.
This is the sample packet screenshot of the SSL/TLS handshake:

Let's spend some time to understand each of the packets involved during the SSL/TLS handshaking process.
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