perspective Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) was designed to maintain the integrity of transmissions through encryption, authentication and message authentication codes. The protocol’s ability to maintain ...

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 ...

With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe now leads PCMag's news coverage. In the wake of revelations about NSA spying, not to mention the Web hacks that seem to occur on a ...

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 ...

Organizations have spent vast sums of money on security systems and, when deployed and operated correctly, they play a key role in safeguarding the organization. However, most systems have one ...

Thanks to Google and Facebook, awareness of Transport Layer Security (TLS), formerly known a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology, is now fairly high. In fact, adoption of TLS/SSL is so ...

The internet has become a part of our life. It is one of the necessities we have today. Without the internet, we cannot imagine our lives nowadays. When something has become such an indispensable tool ...

For the first time, more than half of traffic on the Internet is encrypted, and experts say free SSL certificate providers are playing a big role. If recent telemetry from Mozilla is indeed ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...