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 the time this day. By end of this ...

Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...

Do you know what SSL protocols you expose to your users? Are your settings optimized for security? Have you properly deprecated older TLS certs? Here's what you need to know. Most of us take Secured ...

Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. That’s a broad statement, but it ...

If you’ve followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you’ve got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It’s serving your static pages without any issue. We don’t yet have a database, ...

What is HTTPS and how does it relate to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and and Transport Level Security (TLS)? Briefly, SSL is a technology originally developed by Netscape for establishing an ...

Cloudflare, which provides services such as CDN and DDoS protection, has announced the introduction of an 'Automatic SSL/TLS mode' that automatically determines whether SSL and TLS are available for ...

A newly-discovered flaw in some implementations of cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS — including those used by Apple's Safari and Google's Android AOSP browsers — could allow an attacker to force ...

The NSA surveillance scandal has created ripples all across the Internet, and the latest one is a new effort from the IETF to change the way that encryption is used in a variety of critical ...

Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember ...