TLS

TLS

1. Transport Layer Security. A protocol which is intended to enhance SSL and is generally regarded as the successor to SSL.

TLS is used for transmitting documents over the internet in a secure manner using a private key to encrypt the data.

For more information see:

• www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html - IETF Working Group responsible for developing the TLS Protocol.
• http://everything.explained.at/Transport_Layer_Security - TLS explained

2. Thread Local Storage. Storage (an area in memory) that is specific to the instance of the thread. This is Component Object Model (COM) terminology. cf STA.

For more information see:

• http://everything.explained.at/Thread-local_storage - Thread Local Storage explained.