Understanding TLS
For many years, consumers have been conducting transactions on the internet. Up until recently, a website could get away with not having a secure connection. However, most consumers nowadays insist on some form of encryption to protect against malicious activity.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/TLS-based VPNs have been around since the early 1990s. Netscape (which later became Firefox) developed this protocol to secure traffic while on the internet. Originally known as SSL, this method was widely recognized as a way to secure traffic between clients and web browsers. The protocol has improved over the years in the following ways:
- SSL 2.0-SSL 3.0 represent early versions of the protocol. SSL 3.0 is no longer used.
- TLS 1.0 is essentially an upgrade of SSL 1.0; although the protocol was to be deprecated in 2020, you may still see this version in use.
- TLS 1.1 was released in 2006. TLS 1.1 was also to be deprecated in 2020; however you may still see this...