Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

A Silicon Valley-based encryption company has done the federal government a huge solid, allowing feds to keep using the most common type of open-source crypto. “This is a very unusual sponsorship deal ...

OpenSSL is a very mighty and complex tool. This page describes only few situations where this software can help requesting and using certificates. On Linux and Macintosh computers the OpenSSL software ...

The president of the OpenSSL Foundation said the organization needs more support from companies and governments that use its software so that it can be better equipped to spot and fix flawed pieces of ...

OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...

On a scale of 1 to 10, this vulnerability is an 11. Here are the steps to take to thoroughly protect yourself from this OpenSSL bug The OpenSSL flaw named Heartbleed is pretty huge. Many of us in the ...

As most cloud infrastructure providers announced fixes to the worrying Heartbleed OpenSSL flaw, Microsoft's Azure cloud has emerged largely unscathed — but customers running Linux images on it may be ...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a critical technology in today's computer oriented world. Without it there would be no secure e-commerce transactions or secure connections. Remember the days when ...

The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of its popular implementation of the SSL v2/v3 and TLS protocols to fix three security vulnerabilities. According to an advisory from the open-source ...

The OpenSSL Project has patched two high-severity security flaws in its open-source cryptographic library used to encrypt communication channels and HTTPS connections. The vulnerabilities ...