Amazon has announced that its content distribution service, CloudFront, will now support TLS 1.3 for viewer connections.
Amazon identifies the improved security and performance provided by the latest version of the TLS protocol as key benefits. Their testing shows latency reductions of up to 33% for ‘time-to-first-byte’, meaning more responsive websites for end users.
Many popular Internet applications, such as e-mail and web browsers, use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure traffic against eavesdropping and data tampering while in transit between clients and servers. Over time, flaws in early versions of TLS have been identified, leading to substantial improvements to the protocol.
The latest version, TLS 1.3, provides enhanced security and fewer avenues for attackers to find new flaws. TLS 1.3 has also been shown to improve performance, with secure connections taking less time to establish. This helps to demonstrate that optimizations can be made without compromising on security. Improving the security of Internet applications of all kinds is imperative for a healthy and growing Internet.
Check out the growth of TLS 1.3 adoption.
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