TLS Standards Activities
Beyond Netscape’s own “standards” activities, SSL has also been the subject of ongoing standards efforts within the Internet’s technical standards-setting bodies.
In 1995, the IETF laid the groundwork for the adoption of SSL as part of a new Internet standard for Transport Layer Security (TLS). A draft of the protocol by Tim Dierks and Christopher Allen at Consensus Development was published on March 6, 1997.
TLS is very similar to SSL 3.0, with a few important differences. Instead of using MD5, TLS uses the HMAC secure keyed message digest function. TLS also has a slightly different cipher suite from SSL 3.0.
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