[Dovecot] Protocol logging - TLS vs SSL

Ben Morrow ben at morrow.me.uk
Tue Feb 26 22:48:33 EET 2013


At  9PM +0100 on 26/02/13 you (Reindl Harald) wrote:
>
> TLS is a standard closely related to SSL 3.0, and is sometimes
> referred to as "SSL 3.1"

More specifically, TLS x.y is just SSL (x+2).(y+1) with a completely
unnecessary name and version change. For example, TLS 1.2 internally
identifies itself as SSL 3.3.

Ben



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