Facts about SSL

1. 07

   TLS 1.2, standardized in 2008, introduced authenticated encryption modes that simultaneously protect both confidentiality and integrity of transmitted data, eliminating previous separation of these security functions.

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2. 06

   Revocation checking through OCSP stapling, introduced in 2006, allows servers to provide proof of certificate validity without clients contacting certificate authorities, reducing latency and privacy risks.

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3. 05

   Perfect Forward Secrecy in TLS 1.3 ensures that even if a server's long-term private key is compromised, past encrypted sessions remain protected because each connection uses ephemeral session keys.

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4. 04

   Certificates signed with RSA 2048-bit keys became the minimum requirement for SSL/TLS in 2016 to prevent brute-force attacks on older 1024-bit implementations.

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5. 03

   256-bit encryption strength in TLS 1.3, released in 2018, provides protection against quantum computing threats for approximately 300 years.

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6. 02

   In 2014, Google and Mozilla began phasing out SHA-1 certificates used in SSL/TLS due to collision vulnerabilities, requiring migration to SHA-256 by 2017.

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7. 01

   Netscape Communications Corporation released SSL 2.0 in 1995, establishing the first widely-adopted encryption protocol for secure web communications.

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