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I have an upcoming oral network security exam and know that in past exams, the professor asked about why TLS requires TCP. I know that there is DTLS but it wasn't part of the lecture. So the question is about what advantage TLS gains by requiring its underlying protocol to be TCP, I guess. I already heard some wild guesses but no convincing arguments. In the beginning of the RFC, it says: At the lowest level, layered on top of some reliable transport protocol (e.g., TCP [TCP]), is the TLS Record Protocol. Seemingly everywhere else (according to my judgement), the RFC doesn't only require "some reliable transport protocol" but TCP in particular.
