{"id":34,"date":"2011-09-19T04:34:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-09-19T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:34:12","slug":"ssl-vs-tls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"SSL vs TLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\" rel=\"nofollow\">TLS (Transport Layer Security)<\/a>\u00a0and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications in scenarios where that data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking your email (<a href=\"http:\/\/luxsci.com\/info\/about_ssl.html\" target=\"_self\">How does the Secure Socket Layer work?<\/a>). The terms SSL and TLS are often used interchangeably or in conjunction with each other (TLS\/SSL), but one is in fact the predecessor of the other \u2014 SSL 3.0 served as the basis for TLS 1.0 which, as a result, is sometimes referred to as SSL 3.1. With this said though, is there actually a difference between the two?<\/p>\n<p>While SSL and TLS differ in ways that make them inoperable with each other, they are generally considered\u00a0<em>equal<\/em>\u00a0in terms of security. The main difference is that, while SSL connections begin with security and proceed directly to secured communications, TLS connections first begin with an insecure \u201chello\u201d to the server and only switch to secured communications after the handshake between the client and the server is successful. If the TLS handshake fails for any reason, the connection is never created.<\/p>\n<p>Both Internet security protocols ensure that your data is encrypted as it is transmitted across the Internet.\u00a0 They also both enable you to be sure that the server that you are communication with is the server you intend to contact and not some \u201cmiddle man eavesdropper\u201d.\u00a0 This is possible because servers that support SSL\u00a0and TLS\u00a0must have certificates issued to them by a trusted third party, like Verisign or Thawte.\u00a0 These certificates verify that the domain name they are issued for really belongs to the server.\u00a0 Your computer will issue warnings to you if you try to connect to a server and the certificate that it gets back is not trusted or doesn\u2019t match the site you are trying to connect to.<\/p>\n<p>If you are mostly concerned about your level of security, you can\u2019t really go wrong choosing either SSL or TLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLS (Transport Layer Security)\u00a0and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications in scenarios where that data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking your email (How does the Secure Socket Layer work?). The terms SSL and TLS are often used interchangeably or in conjunction with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SSL vs TLS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tech.dimprash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}