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Acronym for Transport Layer Security

TLS is a newer version of SSL.

Many protocols support TLS including SMTP and HTTP

The RFC specifies it: RFC:2246


CategoryProtocols

TLS also means Thread-Local Storage, which is explained here: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html