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What is TLS?

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a widely adopted security protocol designed to provide privacy and data integrity between communicating applications. It's used for secure communication over a network, commonly encrypting traffic between web browsers and web servers (HTTPS), email clients and servers (SMTPS, IMAPS, POP3S), and other applications. TLS ensures that data is encrypted in transit, preventing eavesdropping and tampering.

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What other technologies are related to TLS?

TLS Competitor Technologies

SSL

SSL is a predecessor to TLS and serves a similar purpose of providing secure communication over a network. It is effectively an older version of the same technology.

mentioned alongside TLS in 10% (4.5k) of relevant job posts

SSH

SSH is an alternative protocol that provides secure communication, primarily used for remote login and command execution. While it serves a different primary function, it competes with TLS in securing network traffic.

mentioned alongside TLS in 8% (2.7k) of relevant job posts

IPSEC

IPsec provides secure communication at the network layer, offering an alternative to TLS, which operates at the transport layer. They both aim to secure network traffic but use different approaches and are suitable for different scenarios.

mentioned alongside TLS in 7% (2.6k) of relevant job posts

DTLS

DTLS is a variant of TLS designed to secure UDP-based communications. It serves the same purpose as TLS but is tailored for connectionless protocols.

mentioned alongside TLS in 54% (208) of relevant job posts

SRTP

SRTP is designed to provide secure real-time transport of audio and video, competing with TLS in certain specific applications such as VoIP.

mentioned alongside TLS in 30% (261) of relevant job posts

MACsec

MACsec is a Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) security technology that provides hop-by-hop encryption on Ethernet links. While it operates at a different layer than TLS, it serves a similar purpose of securing communication and thus could be considered a competitor in certain scenarios.

mentioned alongside TLS in 16% (270) of relevant job posts