Question

What cryptographic transport algorithm is considered to be significantly more secure than SSL?

A. AES

B. HTTPS

C. DES

D. TLS

Answer 1

What cryptographic transport algorithm is considered to be significantly more secure than SSL?

Ans is) TLS option D

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is one of the most common transport cryptographic algorithms. The design goal of SSL was to create an encrypted data path between a client and a server that could be used on any platform or operating system. SSL took advantage of the relatively new cryptographic algorithm Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) instead of the weaker Data Encryption Standard (DES). ( So SSL better than AES and DES).

TLS (Transport Layer Security) is another such algorithm. Although TLS v1.0 was considered marginally more secure than SSL v3.0, subsequent versions of TLS (v1.1 and v1.2) are more secure as compared to previous TLS and SSL versions.

HTTPS uses an encryption protocol to encrypt communications. The protocol is called Transport Layer Security (TLS). So HTTPS is different from the above mentioned cryptographic algorithms, it uses one algorithm (TLS) to become more secure. Hence can't be used for comparison.

So, the answer is option D, TLS.