TLS: The new security standard

Transport Layer Security (TLS) has replaced the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), while retaining many of its functions. TLS is an attempt to create a high-security wing for transmitted data on the internet. Five protocols are intended to guarantee security and data integrity on the Internet. In the case of TLS, too, improved versions follow each other in close succession.

TLS includes end-to-end encryption, a message authenticity check, a 'handshake' that enables mutual identification and much more. Despite all the 'locks' in front of this system, even TLS is not absolutely secure - like almost nothing on the internet. 'Man-in-the-middle attacks' have been recorded, as well as loose-plaintext or compression attacks. There are also political restrictions: due to American export bans on cryptography, often only short 'keys' may be used, which then make it easier for attackers to carry out their work.

In a word: nothing on the Internet is 'absolutely secure', except the security that it is. However, we offer our customers the current maximum level of security at all times.