The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published its 1.3 version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The application allows client/server applications to communicate over the ...

Microsoft plans to disable older versions of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, the ubiquitous communications encryption used to protect information sent over networks and the Internet.

Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare announced today a new technical specification called TLS Delegated Credentials, currently undergoing standardization at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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An aging core internet protocol is finally getting the ax by Microsoft Corp. But it wasn’t just last month’s announcement that the software vendor was ending support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 of ...

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The US National Security Agency has issued a security advisory [PDF] this month urging system administrators in federal agencies and beyond to stop using old and obsolete TLS protocols. "NSA ...

Microsoft has relased a security advisory about the TLS/SSL attack developed by Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong and also has made a FixIt tool available to help server administrators switch on support ...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols are responsible for keeping most of the internet secure by encrypting communications between client and server applications. This includes all sorts of ...

Part 5 of a six-part article: The easiest way to test the encryption is to send an e-mail to the e-mail administrator of the domain you just configured and ask him/her to send you back the headers of ...