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TLS handshake

Definition

The TLS handshake is the negotiation phase that takes place at the beginning of a TLS connection. The client and server agree on the cipher suite, exchange their certificates (optional mutual authentication), and establish session keys via an ephemeral key protocol (ECDHE). TLS 1.3 has reduced the handshake to 1 network round-trip (vs 2 in TLS 1.2), improving the performance of signing sessions on mobile.

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