Supershort Intro to TLS

• 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

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

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