13TLS
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, also known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL), which is the name of its predecessor, is the workhorse of internet security. TLS protects connections between servers and clients, whether that connection is between a website and its visitors, email servers, a mobile application and its servers, or video game servers and players. Without TLS, there would be no secure online commerce, secure online banking, or for that matter secure online anything.
TLS is application agnostic; it doesn’t care about the type of content encrypted. This means that you can use it for web-based applications that rely on the ...
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