Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...

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 ...

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Prior to the advent of SSL and adoption of encryption by web browsers, people were afraid to use credit cards online for fear that their card number could be stolen by an eavesdropper (Photo by Silas ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Anthony Battle is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. He earned the Chartered Financial Consultant® ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paul Kocher and Taher Elgamal, whose work has had a profound impact on communication security, have been awarded the 2019 Marconi Prize for their development of ...

Everyone talks about security on infrastructure, but it comes at a heavy cost. While datacenters have been securing their perimeters with firewalls for decades, this is far from sufficient for modern ...

In the last section we discussed the potential for optimizing algorithms, which can be done, but sometimes may not result in the type of performance required. As was mentioned, you can always move the ...

The OpenSSL project team has patched two vulnerabilities in the cryptographic library and enhanced the strength of existing cryptography used by OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2. OpenSSL 1.0.2 users ...

SAN FRANCISCO & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today we announced Internet entrepreneur Max Levchin’s annual prize, the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. The award honors significant contributions ...