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 ...

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 ...

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The volume of online transactions continues to grow exponentially, together with the number of web enabled endpoints like mobile and IoT devices. At the same time, privacy and cybersecurity concerns ...

Prior to the advent of SSL and adoption of encryption by web browsers, people were afraid to use credit cards online for fear that their card number could be stolen by an eavesdropper (Photo by Silas ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paul Kocher and Taher Elgamal, whose work has had a profound impact on communication security, have been awarded the 2019 Marconi Prize for their development of ...

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...

The OpenSSL project team has patched two vulnerabilities in the cryptographic library and enhanced the strength of existing cryptography used by OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2. OpenSSL 1.0.2 users ...

A way to provide strong encryption in an SSL connection with older Web browsers that support keys only up to 64 bits in length. If the server supports server-gated cryptography (SGC), it returns an ...