Datagram Transport Layer Security

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In information technology, the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol provides communications privacy for datagram protocols. DTLS allows datagram-based applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. The DTLS protocol is based on the stream-oriented TLS protocol and is intended to provide similar security guarantees. The datagram semantics of the underlying transport are preserved by the DTLS protocol — the application will not suffer from the delays associated with stream protocols, but will have to deal with packet reordering, loss of datagram and data larger than a datagram packet size.

DTLS is defined in RFC 4347 for use with UDP encapsulation and in RFC 5238 for use with DCCP encapsulation.

See also

  • OpenSSL: a free and popular implementation of TLS added support for DTLS with version 0.9.8.

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