DTLS stands for Datagram Transport Layer Security.

Simply put, DTLS is UDP + security.

What is DTLS?

DTLS provides similar security guarantees to that TLS provides.

DTLS is used in WebRTC for secure media key exchange in DTLS-SRTP.

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