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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Transport Level Security (TLS) protocol is one of the few rock-steady spots in the rapidly changing computing industry, but that’s about to change as quantum computers threaten traditional ...

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 ...

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E-commerce websites depend on a secure connection between your computer and the site's server. Without this security, hackers and identity thieves would eavesdrop on your session and steal valuable ...