Foundation or terminal standard
TLS
Transport Layer Security
Widely used
Documented current use
Protects credentials and session data with transport confidentiality, integrity, and server authentication.
Protocol overview
- First seen
- 1990s; TLS 1.3 in 2018
- Present-day status
- Widely used
- In use today?
- Yes, with documented current use.
- Legacy?
- No.
- Layer
- Foundation or terminal standard
- Transport
- Encrypted transport beneath Telnet or WebSocket
- Research validated
Current use and fit
A baseline capability for new deployments, commonly offered on a dedicated secure listener or through WSS.
Implementation essentials
- Use current TLS versions and configuration.
- Prefer a dedicated TLS listener with a valid certificate.
- Keep protocol negotiation inside the protected connection.
Compatibility and safety notes
- Compression and legacy protocol security codes are not substitutes.
- Plain Telnet remains visible to the network.
Original specifications and sources
- RFC 8446 TLS 1.3 Standard
Where an original site has disappeared, a preservation archive is linked and identified as such. MUDVerse does not claim authorship of the original protocol.