RACF Remote Sharing Facility over TCP/IP

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3.1 Overview of AT-TLS

AT-TLS stands for Application Transparent Transport Layer Security. TLS (Transport Layer

Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocol technologies used to protect data

exchanges between client and server applications. Using TLS/SSL, the client and server can

confirm each other’s identity. Their data flows can be encrypted to protect e-commerce

transactions and other sensitive data as they navigate across the network.

The AT-TLS protection is driven by the security policies you decide for the application. Policy

Agent (PAGENT) is a system component that reads your secur ...