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The TLS Protocol

Overview This document specifies Version 1.0 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The TLS protocol provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.The TLS Record Protocol is used for encapsulation of various higher level protocols. One such encapsulated protocol, the TLS Handshake Protocol, allows the server and client to authenticate each other and to negotiate an encryption algorithm and cryptographic keys before the application protocol transmits or receives its first byte of data.

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Publisher	Internet Society (ISOC)	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 1999	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	PKI, Security Standards, Digital Signatures

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