March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 12m
English
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a formally standardized version of SSL. The biggest difference, in fact, is that TLS is defined and maintained by an international standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). SSL is developed and maintained by Netscape.
The differences between SSL version 3.0 and TLS are extremely subtle. In fact, the authors deliberately intended to adopt SSL version 3.0 as the standard, adding very minor changes that they felt would strengthen security as well as the obvious change in name.
One of the advantages of the IETF’s involvement in TLS is that they also control the HTTP protocol. This situation can possibly be credited for RFC 2817, which describes a method for ...
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