Transport Layer Security or TLS, is a cryptographic protocol used to provide secure communications over a computer network. The protocol in use is publicly identified by the use of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) scheme. Its primary use is to encrypt communication between a server and a web client.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the successor of the deprecated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
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