The SSL Protocol
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and TLS stands for Transport Layer Security. They are a family of protocols that were originally designed to provide security for HTTP transactions, but that also can be used for a variety of other Internet protocols such as IMAP and NNTP. HTTP running over SSL is referred to as secure HTTP.
Netscape released SSL version 2 in 1994 and SSL version 3 in 1995. TLS is an IETF standard designed to standardize SSL as an Internet protocol. It is just a modification of SSL version 3 with a small number of added features and minor cleanups. The TLS acronym is the result of arguments between Microsoft and Netscape over the naming of the protocol because each company proposed its own name. However, the ...
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