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SSL

The deprecated predecessor to TLS — the term still sticks around.

Encryption & transport

What is SSL?

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the original web-encryption protocol. Every version of SSL is now broken and disabled in modern browsers; what people still call an "SSL certificate" is really a TLS certificate. We keep the word because hosting panels and certificate authorities never updated their menus. If someone says SSL today, they mean TLS.

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