Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)
82 points by franta
82 points by franta
Some good vintage Microsoft bs.
I always wondered what prompted the name change. This explanation makes sense.
Jabber also got this treatment going trough the IETF and got named XMPP, probably because there was a company called Jabber Inc and a trademark that ended up owned by Cisco. History
It does seem sensible not to have an Internet Standard with trademark encumbrance.
And I still call it ssl, despite the fact that I never even used it when that was its real name
as in openssl and httpS?
S in HTTPS is for Secure, not SSL. At least, now.
And not to be confused with Secure HTTP, a defunct (to my knowledge) alternative which operated in band. Looks like it was mildly interesting.
If you are like me and would need to look it up:
SSL - Secure Sockets Layer
TLS - Transport Layer Security