The encryption protocol SSL or TLS ("Secure Sockets Layer" or "Transport Layer Security") supports secure data communication between two communication partners. For this purpose, SSL or TLS uses, for example, encryption, authentication and verification of certificates that have been sent. Although it is mainly used to secure HTTP connections (as "HTTPS" or "HTTP over SSL"), SLS or TLS serve as a basis for secure communications for many other transfer protocols.
LCOS uses the TLS protocol in the following modules:
- HTTP over SSL
- Telnet over SSL
- RADSEC
- CAPWAP/DTLS
- EAP-TLS/PEAP/TTLS
The TLS encryption protocol has been under development since 1999 and up to the current version TLS 1.2. To use the enhanced functionality of clients and web browsers, LANCOM devices support the TLS protocol of the versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 for secure data transmission.
In the LCOS versions prior to 8.60, the encryption protocols SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 were always enabled by default. As of LCOS version 8.60 you can also select between the TLS versions 1.1 or 1.2 for HTTPS connections.