alt Hacker Newstl;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.
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pinoy420 • 06/15/2025
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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.
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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.