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 ...

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The ...

Every digital transaction—checkout, login, API call—runs on a hidden foundation of millions of machine identities. Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, just one type of machine identity, are ...

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SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...

On March 3, Google (via The Chromium Projects, which it controls) proposed a plan to drastically shorten the lifespan of Transport Layer Security (TLS) digital certificates, from 398 days to 90 days.

A new method of covert channel data exchange has been uncovered. It uses a well-known and widely implemented public key certificates standard (X.509), which is a hallmark of both TLS and SSL IP ...