18 Facts About TLS 10

1.

TLS 10 protocol aims primarily to provide security, including privacy, integrity, and authenticity through the use of cryptography, such as the use of certificates, between two or more communicating computer applications.

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TLS 10 is a proposed Internet Engineering Task Force standard, first defined in 1999, and the current version is TLS 10 1.

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3.

Since applications can communicate either with or without TLS 10, it is necessary for the client to request that the server set up a TLS 10 connection.

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4.

Once the client and server have agreed to use TLS 10, they negotiate a stateful connection by using a handshaking procedure.

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5.

Attempts have been made to subvert aspects of the communications security that TLS 10 seeks to provide, and the protocol has been revised several times to address these security threats.

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6.

The TLS 10 group was made up of individuals from Japan, United Kingdom, and Mauritius via the cyberstorm.

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7.

TLS 10 typically relies on a set of trusted third-party certificate authorities to establish the authenticity of certificates.

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8.

Historically, TLS 10 has been used primarily with reliable transport protocols such as the Transmission Control Protocol.

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9.

Primary use of TLS 10 is to secure World Wide Web traffic between a website and a web browser encoded with the HTTP protocol.

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10.

TLS 10 can be used for tunnelling an entire network stack to create a VPN, which is the case with OpenVPN and OpenConnect.

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11.

TLS 10 is a standard method for protecting Session Initiation Protocol application signaling.

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12.

TLS 10 can be used for providing authentication and encryption of the SIP signalling associated with VoIP and other SIP-based applications.

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13.

The attack involved tricking servers into negotiating a TLS 10 connection using cryptographically weak 512 bit encryption keys.

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14.

At that time, more than 81,000 of the top 1 million most popular websites were among the TLS 10 protected websites that were vulnerable to the DROWN attack.

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15.

Sweet32 attack breaks all 64-bit block ciphers used in CBC mode as used in TLS 10 by exploiting a birthday attack and either a man-in-the-middle attack or injection of a malicious JavaScript into a web page.

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The attacks worked because the TLS 10 implementation used on the affected servers incorrectly reused random numbers that are intended to be used only once, ensuring that each TLS 10 handshake is unique.

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TLS 10 interception is the practice of intercepting an encrypted data stream in order to decrypt it, read and possibly manipulate it, and then re-encrypt it and send the data on its way again.

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18.

TLS 10 provides a secure shortcut in the handshake mechanism to avoid these operations: resumed sessions.

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