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diff --git a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml index 6138749b79..64607a393a 100644 --- a/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml +++ b/lib/ssl/doc/src/ssl_introduction.xml @@ -34,21 +34,20 @@ <section> <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. They - use x.509 certificates and hence asymmetric cryptography to - authenticate the counterparty with whom they are communicating, - and to exchange a symmetric key. This session key is then used - to encrypt data flowing between the parties. This allows for - data/message confidentiality, and message authentication codes - for message integrity.</p> + Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols designed to + provide communications security over a computer network. The protocols use + 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> </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/TSP.</p> + understanding of SSL/TLS.</p> </section> </chapter> |