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ICANN Acronyms and Terms

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  • Transport Layer SecurityTLS

    A cryptographic protocol that enables applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that helps prevent eavesdropping, message tampering, and forgery.

    TLS is the replacement for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which has been deprecated by the Internet Engineering Task Force.