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March 1995

SSL 2.0 launched with Netscape Navigator v1.1, the world’s first publicly available internet browser, in early ’95. It provided enhanced cryptographic encryption & authentication over Netscape’s SSL 1.0 internal release in…

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November 1995

SSL 3.0 rolled out to mitigate several of the security issues that were prevalent in SSL 2.0. In addition to bringing even stronger algorithms, this protocol version also introduced additional…

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January 1999

TLS 1.0 — The first version of the transport layer security protocol (TLS version 1.0) to debut was built upon its SSL 3.0 predecessor but aimed to resolve many of its…

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April 2006

TLS 1.1 — This updated version of the TLS protocol was standardized in April 2006 as IETF RFC 4346. Its purpose was to make minor updates to TLS 1.0 to help…

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August 2008

TLS 1.2 — The release of the TLS 1.2 standard quickly followed in August 2008 and was published as RFC 5246. Even today (in 2025), it remains the most popular TLS…

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March 2011

IETF RFC 6176 was released as a bid for the deprecation of SSL 2.0. However, the proposal’s goal was not truly successful, as more than half of HTTPS servers at…

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June 2015

SSL 3.0 — This version of the protocol was formally deprecated by IETF RFC 7568 in the summer of 2015.

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August 2018

TLS 1.3 officially launched in August 2018 as RFC 8446 after five years of standards work. While the use of TLS 1.3 is recommended, the adoption of this protocol still…

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March 2021

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 — Both versions of this protocol were formally deprecated via IETF RFC 8996, although different products and services have been implementing the deprecation on their own…