Nov 9, 2008

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

  Secure Sockets Layer is cryptographic protocols that provide security and data integrity for communications over TCP/IP
networks such as the Internet. TLS
and SSL encrypt the segments of network connections at the Transport Layer
end-to-end.


Several versions of the protocols are in wide-spread use in applications like
web
browsing
, electronic mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging
and voice-over-IP (VoIP).


TLS is an IETF standards track
protocol, last updated in RFC 5246, that was based on the
earlier SSL specifications developed by Netscape Corporation

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