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<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>