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RFC 8446
Title: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
Version 1.3
Author: E. Rescorla
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: August 2018
Mailbox: ekr@rtfm.com
Pages: 160
Characters: 337736
Obsoletes: RFC 5077, RFC 5246, RFC 6961
Updates: RFC 5705, RFC 6066
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tls-tls13-28.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8446
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8446
This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate
over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping,
tampering, and message forgery.
This document updates RFCs 5705 and 6066, and obsoletes RFCs 5077,
5246, and 6961. This document also specifies new requirements for
TLS 1.2 implementations.
This document is a product of the Transport Layer Security Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track
protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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