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 ...

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 ...

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Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard protocol that provides authentication, privacy and data integrity between two communicating computer applications.

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There’s a new attack that breaks the communication encryption provided by SSL and TLS and can therefore lead to theft of extremely sensitive data exchanged between users and a vulnerable server. It ...

Get ready, everyone -- the next version of PCI DSS is on the books. If it seems like you're hearing that news fairly often, you're not alone. In April 2015, the Payment Card Industry Security ...

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 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. SSL/TLS encryption is widely ...

SSL/TLS encryption once again is being haunted by an outdated and weak feature long past its prime: a newly discovered attack exploits a weakness in the older, less secure RC4 encryption algorithm ...

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