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DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)

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DTLS brings TLS security to UDP traffic, for protocols such as CoAP. Version 1.3 is defined in RFC 9147.

In practice

Resuming a DTLS session after a sleep period avoids a full handshake at each wake-up, which saves data and battery on metered IoT plans.

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