Showing posts with label Transport Layer Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transport Layer Security. Show all posts

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Overview
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used between two communicating applications to provide confidentiality and data integrity. The agreement consists of two layers: TLS Record Protocol (TLS Record) and the TLS Handshake Protocol (TLS Handshake). The lower layer of TLS Record Protocol, is located in a reliable transport protocol (eg TCP) above.
Protocol Structure
TLS protocol consists of two protocol groups - TLS Record Protocol and the TLS Handshake Protocol - each with many different formats of information.