The Netscape and Microsoft browser competition in the 90s influenced the development of security protocols.
Netscape developed SSL, but initial versions had cryptographic flaws.
Microsoft created a derived protocol called PCT, which was only supported in its browsers.
Netscape responded with SSL 3.0 to counter Microsoft.
Industry consensus led to a meeting to avoid a protocol fork, eventually leading to the creation of TLS 1.0.
TLS 1.0 was a result of negotiations and was actually SSL 3.1.
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