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Surveying SSL and TLS implementations

Surveying SSL and TLS implementations

- [Instructor] TLS or the transport layer security is a protocol that provides secure communications over the internet. It is widely used to secure online transactions such as web browsing, email, and file transfers. Now there are a lot of examples of TLS implementations, one of the most popular is open SSL, which is a popular open source implementation that is widely used in web servers, in email servers, and many, many other applications including IOT and embedded devices and so on. It provides supports for a wide range of cryptographic algorithms, including AES, RSA, Elliptic, Curve, Cryptography, and many others. TLS is built into the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is built into Linux, Mac OSX, and basically it is used to secure a variety of applications, including the built-in web browsers, file transfer protocols, and many others. And pretty much all the different programming languages that are modern nowadays, they provide different libraries for encryption, whether…

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