Transport Layer Security Support

Description

Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its predecessor, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the OpenSSL software (RPM package openssl). TLS provides encrypted and authenticated network communications, and many network services include support for it. TLS or SSL can be leveraged to avoid any plaintext transmission of sensitive data.
For information on how to use OpenSSL, see http://www.openssl.org/docs/. Information on FIPS validation of OpenSSL is available at http://www.openssl.org/docs/fips.html and http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm.