ssl

SSL is an acronym that can be used to refer to a range of things in different fields of activity.

In computing and electronics, SSL can stand for semi-supervised learning, which is a class of artificial intelligence learning techniques that employ a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data for learning. Semi-supervised learning falls between supervised and unsupervised learning. SSL may also refer to single stuck line, or a fault model commonly used in digital circuits. The single stuck model is primarily used for post manufacturing testing and not design testing.

However, more often than not SSL is used to denote secure sockets layer, a popular protocol developed by Netscape and used for managing the security of private message transmission over the Internet. SSL makes use of a cryptographic system with two keys to encrypt data. One key is public and can be used by anyone, whilst the other is private and is only known by the message recipient.

To facilitate sensitive data exchange, an SSL certificate will encrypt private information while functioning as a unique credential for the owner. A certificate authority will subsequently authenticate the identity of the certificate owner.

The SSL protocol has been upgraded to transport layer security (TSL). While the differences between the two protocols were not initially that great, but still were significant enough that TSL1.0 and the last version of SSL, namely 3.0, could not interoperate. The next update to the TSL protocol came in 2006, when version 1.1 added extra protection against cipher block chaining attacks and provided support for IANA registration of parameters.

The 2008 version TSL 1.2 brought about numerous major differences, including expansion of the support for authenticated encryption ciphers, significant enhancements in the client's and server's ability to state which hash and signature algorithms are acceptable, as well as an addition of Advanced Encryption Standard CipherSuites.


SSL and TSL can provide a range of security measures, such as protection against a protocol downgrade that could potentially weaken data security and the use of sequence numbers for Application records, which are then used in the message authentication codes.

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