From ccf00c0dd19b87739bb025b9b0a29c6c30cc4f1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Sebastian=20H=C3=A4drich?= <11225821+shaedrich@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:01:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add topic "TLS" --- topics/tls/index.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 topics/tls/index.md diff --git a/topics/tls/index.md b/topics/tls/index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3718cd01afe --- /dev/null +++ b/topics/tls/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +topic: tls +display_name: TLS (Transport Layer Security) +short_description: TLS is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. +aliases: ssl +related: https, x509 +created_by: Internet Engineering Task Force +released: 1999 +wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security +--- +**TLS** (**Transport Layer Security**) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. The protocol is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, and voice over IP, but its use in securing HTTPS remains the most publicly visible. + +The TLS protocol aims primarily to provide security, including privacy (confidentiality), integrity, and authenticity through the use of cryptography, such as the use of certificates, between two or more communicating computer applications. It runs in the presentation layer and is itself composed of two layers: the TLS record and the TLS handshake protocols. + +TLS builds on the now-deprecated SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) specifications (1994, 1995, 1996) developed by Netscape Communications for adding the HTTPS protocol to their Navigator web browser.