- Transport Layer Security
- Client & Server use a stateful connection over TCP
- The connection is secured using a symmetric encryption
- Client indicates to server to use TLS
- Client usually use a different port (e.g.443)
- A primary use of TLS is to secure World Wide Web traffic between a website and a web browser encoded with the HTTP protocol. This use of TLS to secure HTTP traffic constitutes the HTTPS protocol.
TLS Termination Proxy
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