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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 5077,RFC 5246,RFC 6961

Updates:

RFC 5705,RFC 6066

Author:

E. Rescorla

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8446

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Abstract

This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security(TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicateover the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping,tampering, and message forgery.

This document updates RFCs 5705 and 6066, and obsoletes RFCs 5077,5246, and 6961. This document also specifies new requirements forTLS 1.2 implementations.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.