Pro Active Directory Certificate Services: Creating and Managing Digital Certificates for Use in Microsoft Networks

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11. SSL and TLS

Lawrence E. Hughes¹  

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Frisco, TX, USA

 

Years ago, Netscape Communications created some of the basic products and protocols that have largely defined the Second Internet (the one based on IPv4). These included the first commercially viable browser (Netscape Navigator), the first commercially viable web server (Netscape Web Server), and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Originally, SSL was a proprietary protocol owned and controlled by Netscape. It became so widely used that it was released to the IETF, who renamed it TLS for Transport Layer Security ...