Transport Layer Security
NIST SP 800-95
(TLS) Provides privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. It is designed to encapsulate other protocols, such as HTTP. TLS v1.0 was released in 1999, providing slight modifications to SSL 3.0. (IETF RFC 2246: The TLS Protocol, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt?number=2246)