Part 3 of a six-part article: The RFC 2246 document states the following: “The cryptographic parameters of the session state are produced by the TLS Handshake Protocol, which operates on top of the ...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard protocol that provides authentication, privacy and data integrity between two communicating computer applications.

How does Transport Layer Security work? TLS uses a client-server handshake mechanism to establish an encrypted and secure connection and to ensure the authenticity of the communication. Here's a ...

You may have noticed that Google's Chrome web browser now marks all websites without Transport Layer Security (TLS) as insecure. So, it's past time to secure your ...

This post is the second part of my series around the impact of encrypted protocols on network security. You can find the first article about HTTP/2 here: Now let us focus on the new and upcoming ...

Part 6 of a six-part article: Just because you checked a few boxes on your Microsoft Exchange Server does not mean that there is secure TLS encryption between your domain and another SMTP server that ...

A team of researchers has published a paper that explains a number of attacks against websites and Web-based applications running TLS. A team of researchers has published a paper that explains a ...

This week I’m dealing with secure e-mail, and in particular the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The financial services company for which I’m consulting is setting up secure e-mail links with ...

You could miss it if you weren't paying close attention through all the Heartbleed blather, but last week Apple patched a severe problem in their TLS/SSL code in iOS and OS X. An attacker in a ...