Question

In the handshake protocol which is the message type first sent between client and server ?

(a) server_hello

(b) client_hello

(c) hello_request

(d) certificate_request

The question was posed to me in a national level competition.

Origin of the question is Secure Socket Layer topic in section Internet Protocol, Network Addressing and Transport Level Security of Cryptograph & Network Security

Answer 1

Right option is (b) client_hello

To elaborate: Interaction between the client and server starts via the client_hello message.