212-81 practice question 25 of 30

Which of the following is the successor of SSL?

Full set: 206 questions
Answer options
A: GRE
B: RSA
C: IPSec
D: TLS Correct answer
Correct Answer:
D. TLS
Explanation

TLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#History_and_development TLS 1.0 was first defined in RFC 2246 in January 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0, and written by Christopher Allen and Tim Dierks of Consensus Development. As stated in the RFC, "the differences between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough to preclude interoperability between TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0". Tim Dierks later wrote that these changes, and the renaming from "SSL" to "TLS", were a face-saving gesture to Microsoft, "so it wouldn't look [like] the IETF was just rubberstamping Netscape's protocol".

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