Is it no longer correct to call it an 'SSL' certificate?

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  • website

    Let's Encrypt Website and Documentation (by letsencrypt)

    But the SSL protocol is dead. TLS is the protocol used now... A colleague recently teased me saying I shouldn't call them that anymore. And indeed I took a look on letsencrypt.org and they call them TLS certificates now too. To me it seemed a bit pedantic to use the more 'technically correct' term instead of what I thought was the universally understood word for "website encryption" - especially when I'm talking to end users, management etc.

  • OpenSSL

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

    Which it apparently was actually called in 1998 and then changed just before release: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f1c236f849d9799a5de0ad1f6c64b33291f60c84

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