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Transport layer protection provides protection of data traffic between clients and an application. SSL was the original protocol, but with it's serious encryption weaknesses, it is being replaced by the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS can provides a number of security benefits: - Confidentiality - protection against an attacker from reading the contents of traffic. - Integrity - protection against an attacker modifying traffic. - Replay prevention - protection against an attacker replaying requests against the server. - Authentication - allowing the client to verify that they are connected to the real server (note that the identity of the client is not verified unless client certificates are used).“