The adoption of devices for the internet of things will depend very much on their communication to the Internet being secure. There are many aspects to being able to secure connections between client ...

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead, and the other still reigns supreme to this day. By the end of this ...

Secure sockets layer (SSL) is an industry-standard method for secure communications on the internet. SSL -- along with its successor, transport layer security (TLS) -- is the commonly accepted ...

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...

TLS is the successor to the better-known SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption protocol; both are used to secure data communications between browsers and the destination server. The makers of the four ...

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. And if you really don't like all the standards you just have to wait another year until the one arises you are looking for. -- ...

A new organisation that wants all traffic between websites and browsers to be encrypted will soon give away server certificates and software required by website owners to make their sites secure. A ...

This chapter is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and corresponding answers following the popular USENET tradition. Most of these questions occurred on the Newsgroup ...

At the start of 2020, there are some technologies – originally developed only with the very best of intentions – that seem to have a darker side, challenging us to come up with new ways to harness and ...

For the third time in less than a year, security researchers have found a method to attack encrypted Web communications, a direct result of weaknesses that were mandated two decades ago by the U.S.