TLS Handshake - EVERYTHING that happens when you visit an HTTPS website

TLS (formerly SSL) is the protocol that makes it safe to do anything on the Internet. It’s the protocol that enables that little padlock which gives you the green light to put in your password or bank account number. In order to get the padlock, however, something has to occur between you and the website you are visiting... that something is known as the TLS handshake. The TLS handshake validates the two endpoints in the conversation, and exchanges the cryptographic material used to create Session keys which will then protect the web browsing session with Encryption, Integrity, and Authentication. In this video, I’ll show you every step of the handshake, what the client knows, what the server knows, and everything they exchange and learn from what is sent across the wire. I’ll show you how they create each key involved in securing internet communication. To be clear, this Handshake also occurs every time you use an SSL VPN as well, and as time goes on, will be used anytime _a
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