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CompTIA: Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) Exam Prep

Category - Cryptography

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What is the Predecessor to Transport Layer Security used to encrypt communication over the internet?
  1. SSL
  2. VPN
  3. FTPS
  4. TCP/IP
Explanation
Answer: A - TLS succeeded SSL as the technology to encrypt Internet communications.

Key Takeaway: TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is replacing SSL, or Secure Socket Layers, as the method of encrypting traffic over the Internet. It has been a graceful transmission as they both use the HTTPS protocol and the client uses TLS as well as it used SSL with no manual intervention needed
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