History Of SSL

• The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol was developed in 1994 by Netscape in response to the growing concern over security on the Internet.
  • Originally developed for securing communications between a Web server and Web browsers regardless of operating system.
    • SSL works at the Transport and Session layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model to support the Application layer.
  • The specification was designed to allow higher level protocols to use SSL.
    • FTP
    • HTTP
    • Telnet
  • Designed to take advantage of new encryption schemes.

What is the current SSL version in use today?

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© 2006 John Michael Pierobon

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