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What is TLS? 6 min
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Symmetric Encryption vs Asymmetric 10 min
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Ciphersuites 4 min
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The TLS Certificate 10 min
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The TLS Handshake 6 min
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TLS on Fastly 2 min
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TLS Quiz
Transport Layer Security
How TLS keeps your connections private and secure.
Course Details
Early network engineers realized that computers would need agreed upon protocols for sharing data privately and securely. This course will cover how Transport Layer Security allows the clients and servers to create encrypted connections.
Learning Objectives
- What is TLS?
- What does it provide?
- What is Encryption?
- Difference between Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption
- What are public and private keys?
- What is the TLS handshake, and how is it added to the TCP handshake?
- What are Certs and how do they build the Chain of Trust?
- The difference between TLS connections between clients and Fastly, vs Fastly and customer origins.