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Transport Layer Security
Secure Sockets Layer or SSL is a protocol designed by Netscape
Communications Corporation to provide encrypted communications on the
Internet. SSL Version 3.0, released in 1996, was later used as a basis to
develop Transport Layer Security or TLS, an IETF standard protocol. TLS was
first defined in RFC 2246: "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0".
These protocols provide communications privacy over the Internet, using
cryptography. They allow client/server applications to communicate in a way
that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
They are layered beneath application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP and NNTP
and above the TCP transport protocol, part of the TCP-IP protocol suite.
While both SSL and TLS can be used to add security to any protocol that uses
TCP, they is most commonly used in the HTTPS access method. HTTPS is used to
secure World Wide Web pages for applications such as Electronic commerce.
Both protocols use public key cryptography and public key certificates to
identify the identity of endpoints.
Like SSL, on which it was based, TLS is a modular protocol, designed to be
extended, with support for forwards and backwards compatibility and
negotiation between peers.
Both TLS and SSL involve a number of basic phases:
* peer negotiation for algorithm support
* public key encryption based key exchange and certificate-based
identification
* symmetric cipher based traffic encryption
Some early versions of SSL used 40-bit symmetric keys because of
restrictions on the export of cryptographic technology. These were quickly
abandoned as insecure: the 40-bit key space was simply too small, and could
be exhausted by brute force search. Modern implementations use 128-bit keys
for symmetric cipher encryption.
TLS has subsequently been extended by other RFCs including:
* RFC 2712 "Addition of Kerberos Cipher Suites to Transport Layer
Security (TLS)". The 40-bit ciphersuites defined in this memo are
included only for the purpose of documenting the fact that those
ciphersuite codes have already been assigned.
* RFC 2817 "Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1", explains how to use the
Upgrade mechanism in HTTP/1.1 to initiate Transport Layer Security
(TLS) over an existing TCP connection. This allows unsecured and
secured HTTP traffic to share the same well known port (in this case,
http: at 80 rather than https: at 443).
* RFC 2818 "HTTP Over TLS", distinguishs secured traffic from insecure
traffic by the use of a different server port.
* RFC 3268 "AES Ciphersuites for TLS". Adds enhanced by the addition of
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) ciphersuites to the previously
existing symmetric ciphers, like RC2, RC4, International Data
Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), Data Encryption Standard (DES), and triple
DES.
While an increasing number of client and server products can support TLS or
SSL natively, there are many that still do not. In these cases, you may wish
to use standalone SSL products like Stunnel to provide SSL encryption.
This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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