What is the difference between TLS and SSL security?

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What is the difference between TLS and SSL security?

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Answer 2

Simply put: SSL runs ON TOP of normal TCP and UDP protocols, the very same protocols you use every day to browse the web, share files, etc. IPSec however, runs UNDER these TCP and UDP protocols. In day-to-day use this means an SSL VPN is easier to use, as your WiFi router and other equipment see it as normal TCP/UDP traffic for which they were built. Whereas IPSec needs special support in the WiFi router and other equipment used. Note: more recent implementations of IPSec can be tunneled in TCP/UDP just like SSL VPN's, but it's a bit of a hack and won't always work as well as a pure SSL VPN.

Answer 3

http://www.smartftp.com/support/kb/list/Products/SmartFTP/Addons/howto/flash/what-is-the-difference-between-implicit-ssl-and-explicit-ssl-f189.html

Answer 4

Check this site out.



http://kb.iu.edu/data/anjv.html

Answer 5

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that ensures privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet. When a server and client communicate, TLS ensures that no third party may eavesdrop or tamper with any message. TLS is the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).





The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL has recently been succeeded by Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is based on SSL. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most Web server products. Developed by Netscape, SSL also gained the support of Microsoft and other Internet client/server developers as well and became the de facto standard until evolving into Transport Layer Security. The "sockets" part of the term refers to the sockets method of passing data back and forth between a client and a server program in a network or between program layers in the same computer. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate.