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5. Protocol description
Because of this tandem with TCP, and in contrast to a security protocol at network level or below, TLS must integrate the particularities of a transport session.
Thus, TLS assumes that the transport channel is capable of delivering messages and maintaining sessions: for this reason, TLS can only be used over TCP. Secondly, TLS is application-dependent, meaning that it is up to the application to implement the TLS service during communication. This also implies that a TLS connection is dedicated to a single application and is destroyed as soon as the application session (and therefore the underlying TCP connection) is terminated. As a result of this highly dynamic and – if you will – somewhat "messy" session management, the management channel is conveniently integrated into the user channel and not handled by an additional protocol, known as in-flow management. As...
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Standardization
- Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory: Overview of concepts, models and services - ITU-T Rec. X.500 - 02-01
- Information technology – Open Systems Interconnection – The Directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks - ITU-T Rec. X.509 - 03-00
- Information Technology – Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) – The directory: an overview of concepts, models and services -...
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) http://www.ietf.org
International Telecommunication Union – Telecom Standardization (ITU-T) http://www.itu.int/ITU-T
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OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org
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