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PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 2246,RFC 4346,RFC 5246

Updated by:

RFC 8996

Authors:

S. Turner
T. Polk

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6176

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Abstract

This document requires that when Transport Layer Security (TLS) clients andservers establish connections, they never negotiate the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 2.0. This document updates the backward compatibility sections found in the Transport Layer Security (TLS).[STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.