Transport Layer Security, or TLS, is a cryptographic protocol that encrypts data sent between a client and a server over a computer network, protecting it from being read or altered while in transit. Netscape Communications developed the protocol's predecessor, the Secure Sockets Layer, in the mid-1990s, with cryptographer Taher Elgamal contributing to its design, and the Internet Engineering Task Force standardized the successor protocol as TLS in 1999. TLS underlies the padlock icon and the https prefix shown in a web browser, and now secures the great majority of traffic carried across the World Wide Web.
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SignificanceWidely used to secure communications, most visibly HTTPS. 1 FAQs
What is the TLS protocol built to provide and how is it organized?
Privacy and data integrity between two applications, built in two layers.
The TLS version 1.0 specification states that the primary goal of the protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. It describes the protocol as composed of two layers, the TLS Record Protocol and the TLS Handshake Protocol.
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Source Transport Layer Security - Wikipedia
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1. Transport Layer Security - Wikipedia
Introduction, paragraph 4
TLS is a proposed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard, first defined in 1999
Introduction, paragraph 1
its use in securing HTTPS remains the most publicly visible
- In Group: Network and Authentication Security Technologies, lead sentence: a cryptographic protocol designed to provide secured communications over a computer network
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Cryptographic protocols
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