Comment by userbinator
5 months ago
tl;dr: politics.
I still like to occasionally refer to TLS 1.3 as "SSL 3.4" to see whether people are aware of the history.
5 months ago
tl;dr: politics.
I still like to occasionally refer to TLS 1.3 as "SSL 3.4" to see whether people are aware of the history.
When TLS 1.3 was finally standardized, there was quite a bit of debate about whether in light of the how different it was from TLS 1.2 we should continue to use the 1.3 version number. ISTR that TLS 2 and TLS 4.0 were both floated--though I don't recall SSL 3.4--but eventually the WG decided to stick with the 1.3 version number we had been using throughout the rest of the process.
The version number in the protocol for TLS 1.3 is 03 04. TLS 1.0 is 03 01, and SSL 3.0 is 03 00. Hence "SSL 3.4".
Yes, I understood your reasoning. I'm just saying that I don't think anyone floated calling it SSL 3.4.
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