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Beyond the Padlock 🔒: Demystifying TLS - Part 1

1 HN point • 11 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Security Encryption Networking
  1. TLS encryption involves various components like digital certificates, public key cryptography, symmetric key encryption, and cipher suites.
  2. A TLS handshake process includes agreeing on a cipher suite, server authentication, session key exchange, and establishing a secure connection.
  3. Version differences in TLS, such as TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3, impact the handshake process, with features like forward secrecy in 1.2 and shorter handshakes in 1.3.