For the most part, it's called SSL. Hell, it's even more taxonomically coherent, take it from the bear: > So basically, the “SSL vs TLS” taxonomy represents th

For the most part, it's called SSL. Hell, it's even more taxonomically coherent, take it from the bear: > So basically, the “SSL vs TLS” taxonomy represents the ownership change in 1999, but not the technical details of the protocols. From a purely technical point of view, lumping together SSL-3.0 with SSL-2.0 but separating it from the TLS versions is about as wrong as, in biology, classifying whales as a kind of fish (despite what Herman Melville wrote about them). > Therefore, I tend to use “SSL” (or “SSL/TLS”) to designate the whole conceptual family of protocols, from SSL-1.0 to TLS-1.2. This is the main reason why BearSSL is called BearSSL and not BearTLS. > A secondary reason is more about marketing. People who know what TLS is also know what SSL is, but not the other way round. For instance, Web site owners look for a “SSL certificate”, not a “TLS certificate”. By using the “SSL” acronym, I thus reach a wider audience, even if it is at the cost of irritating some of the more pickish taxonomists (and I am totally ready to out-pedant them if need be, as demonstrated above). (https://bearssl.org/naming.html https://bearssl.org/naming.html)