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 ...

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

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 ...

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TLS 1.3, the next major version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, will be available in iOS 12.2 and it can already be tested by iOS users willing to install the iOS 12.2 Beta 3 release.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TLS is the successor to the better-known SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption protocol; both are used to secure data communications between browsers and the destination server. The makers of the four ...

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 ...