= SSL = '''Secure Sockets Layer''' ('''SSL''') was a cryptographic communications protocol. The final version of SSL, SSL 3.0, is deprecated as of 2015. [[Encryption/TLS|TLS]] is the direct successor and addresses the failures of SSL's design. <> ---- == Design == ---- == Implementations == * `ssl(7)` a.k.a. libssl, as implemented by... * [[Encryption/OpenSSL|OpenSSL]] * [[Encryption/Quictls|Quictls]] * [[Encryption/LibreSSL|LibreSSL]] ---- CategoryRicottone