What are TLS and SSL?
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer TLS: Transport Layer Security Essentially, when people talk about SSL and TLS, they are talking about the same thing: A public certificate issued by a certificate authority that enables your FTP client to ask for an encrypted connection to transfer files. SSL is the first generation of encryption that were available for internet browsing. TLS is an improved successor to SSL. So why are both listed, and why are does this page use “SSL” instead of “TLS?” Old acronyms die hard. Some programs will only support older SSL protocols (although that is becoming more and more rare). Most modern day browsers and FTP clients will support either SSL or TLS. To be semantically correct, ExaVault supports both FTP-SSL and FTP-TLS connections. It should be mentioned that in reality there are lots of very technical differences between SSL and TLS.
