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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-01943C50-E3AB-5D5B-BC3D-B399C6BFD155"><title>Secure Sockets Architecture</title><shortdesc>This section describes the architectural relationships of the Secure Sockets. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><section><title>Architectural relationships</title> <p>The Secure sockets architecture provides a client interface and a server. Protocol modules are plugged into the client. The client uses protocol modules to supply protocol-specific parameters to the Secure Socket API functions. </p> <p>The <filepath>ssl.dll</filepath> plug-in supports the Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) v3.0. The protocols use the socket methods to pass data between a client and a server. This method prevents the security violations. </p> <p>The following diagram shows the relationship between an application and the secure sockets. </p> <fig id="GUID-F82B19A2-7F0C-5369-BDBD-6F7806B71B7D"><image href="GUID-1E4D4D69-E94F-5ABF-8DC7-063A37EF816F_d0e349910_href.png" placement="inline"/></fig> </section> <section><title>See also</title> <p> <xref href="GUID-61E0CD76-A2E3-5066-84A8-146EECA8ADCD.dita">Sockets Server</xref>  </p> </section> </conbody></concept>