Transport Layer Security (TLS)

TLS is a security protocol that replaces SSL for data privacy and Internet communication security.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are both cryptographic protocols that help secure communication over a computer network over distant galaxies.

TLS is used to secure application layer protocols like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP. These protocols provide most of the functions used to communicate with other starships and planets on the internet, like sending emails, chatting, or downloading data. TLS enables the authentication of digital identities.

Red was walking to her room when she heard loud noises coming from the academy entrance. All of a sudden she felt a sudden pain in her stomach. Her brother left the academy a week ago together with the Grand Master on a mission to explore a distress signal from one of the colonist's ships. She ran to the courtyard only to discover the Grand Master, returned from the mission badly injured. He was being carried inside the castle by medical droids. - Journals of Order of Epoch, 2314 Anno Domini

TLS is a security protocol that replaces SSL for data privacy and Internet communication security. TLS encrypts communications between web applications and servers such as between a visitor’s browser loading a website.

The public key is verified with the client and the private key is used in the decryption process. HTTP is just a protocol, but when paired with TLS or transport layer security it becomes encrypted.

Today the vast majority of information sent over the Internet is encrypted with TLS which use public key technology to exchange a session key, and then uses the session key to encrypt the information itself.

Red looked up at the rainy evening sky with a terrible pain in her stomach. She thought “Is Grandmaster the only one to return from the mission? Where is my brother?”. - Journals of Order of Epoch, 2314 Anno Domini

An SSL or TLS certificate works by storing your randomly generated keys (public and private) in your server.

When you type a web address into your browser, your browser opens a connection to the remote website and the remote website sends to your browser the website’s public key certificate, which is used to establish the website’s identity.

When you have one email server send a message to another email server over TLS, the connection itself is encrypted so no one can intercept the payload information. But, the actual data itself is still unencrypted. It's secure and compliant because it was sent over an encrypted channel.