Company
Date Published
Feb. 1, 2017
Author
Filippo Valsorda
Word count
175
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

On February 01, 2017, Filippo Valsorda and Nick Sullivan delivered a talk about Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, attended by over 13,000 hackers. The talk covered TLS 1.3's technical details, its speed and security improvements, history, and current status. A recording of the talk is available online, as well as a slide deck. Additionally, TLS 1.3 has been released for Chrome and Firefox users, offering faster and more secure browsing on websites with Cloudflare's TLS 1.3 beta enabled.