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TLS

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, TLS means: Transport Layer Security: the standard protocol that encrypts data travelling between two systems, such as a browser and a website, and checks the server's identity.

In Turkish: TLS, Aktarım Katmanı Güvenliği

How it is used

Said letter by letter. TLS is the security layer behind the 'S' in HTTPS and the successor of the older SSL protocol; TLS 1.2 and 1.3 are the versions in normal use. Audits check that old versions are disabled and weak cipher suites removed.

Example sentences

  1. All internal services must use TLS 1.2 or higher.

  2. The scan flagged a server that still accepts TLS 1.0.

Common collocations

  • TLS handshake
  • TLS 1.3
  • TLS certificate
  • TLS inspection
  • enforce TLS
  • encryptionTurning data into an unreadable form that can only be turned back with the right key, so that people without the key cannot read it.
  • digital certificateAn electronic document that links a public key to an identity, such as a website or a person, and is signed by a trusted certificate authority.
  • man-in-the-middle attackAn attack in which someone secretly places themselves between two communicating parties so that they can read or change the traffic passing between them.
  • public-key cryptographyA type of cryptography that uses a pair of related keys: a public key that can be shared with anyone and a private key that its owner keeps secret.

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