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We still have plenty of documentation referring to TLS as SSL too. There's just a tremendous amount of old habits out there, especially with email.
by Avamander 2y ago
We still have plenty of documentation referring to TLS as SSL too. There's just a tremendous amount of old habits out there, especially with email.
- kijin 2y agoDocumentation often refers to the implcit-TLS protocol as SSL, and the STARTTLS protocol as TLS, with the implication that the latter is better. It's even easier to fall for these shenanigans if you know just a little bit about security and heard that TLS supersedes SSL.
- jeroenhd 2y agoThis makes sense, because perhaps the world's most important email client that still costs money to buy (Outlook) used the terms SSL and TLS like that for about a decade. These days the toggle says "SSL/TLS" versus "STARTTLS", I believe, or they may have even dropped the toggle completely to just auto-detect the protocol based on the port number. Using correct terminology would've led to tons of unnecessary helpdesk calls because Microsoft messed up its naming scheme.