Chapter 7Securing Protocols: TLS
Networks and network protocols have this tendency to expose our digital fingerprints. Every connection sends out signals that can be intercepted and analyzed. This was okay in the early days of the Internet, when users might have been a few academics talking about public research. But the more people started using the Internet, the more it became clear that we needed a way to hide and secure traffic between peers to avoid data being intercepted by third parties.
In this chapter, we’ll explore what has become the most widely used securing mechanism for network protocols: TLS. TLS is a way to secure traffic for several protocols, but it’s most commonly used on top of TCP—think of how HTTP, which is based on TCP, ...
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