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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml index d3e39dbb01..a416924eb1 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <header> <copyright> <year>2015</year> - <year>2015</year> + <year>2017</year> <holder>Ericsson AB, All Rights Reserved</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -36,19 +36,20 @@ <title>Purpose</title> <p>Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to - provide communications security over a computer network. The protocols use + provide communications security over a computer network. The protocols use X.509 certificates and hence public key (asymmetric) cryptography to authenticate the counterpart with whom they communicate, and to exchange a symmetric key for payload encryption. The protocol provides data/message confidentiality (encryption), integrity (through message authentication code checks) - and host verification (through certificate path validation).</p> + and host verification (through certificate path validation). DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) that + is based on TLS but datagram oriented instead of stream oriented.</p> </section> <section> <title>Prerequisites</title> <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language, the concepts of OTP, and has a basic - understanding of SSL/TLS.</p> + understanding of SSL/TLS/DTLS.</p> </section> </chapter> |