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What is an SSL handshake? Well, I'm glad
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you asked. Let's talk about it. But
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before you can be initiated into the
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secret society of cyber security and
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learn the three-way handshake, you need
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to know what SSL and TLS actually are.
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SSL stands for security socket layer and
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is a protocol that encrypts data
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transmitted between computers. And TLS
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or transport layer security is
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essentially a newer version of SSL, but
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with better security practices. Did you
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know that SSL actually doesn't exist
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anymore? The protocol is a bit dated as
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it was made back in 1995 and it was
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depreciated way back when and has been
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replaced with TLS. But the name SSL is
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so catchy and so busting as the kids
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say, we just keep using it. So just know
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that in typical usage SSL is actually
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referring to TLS or some other form of
