San Francisco-based security firm Qualys is throwing its support behind an experimental project designed to improve the security and privacy of website authentication by reducing reliance on ...

Analysis Moxie Marlinspike is encouraging browser developers to support an experimental project to shake up the security of website authentication by moving beyond blind faith in secure sockets layer ...

The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn’t be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and ...

The world relies on SSL. It has become the de facto encryption protocol not just for Internet commerce, but commerce in the real world, as well (Uber, Airbnb). The world relies on SSL. It has become ...

Open-source software developer Kai Engert has proposed an overhaul to the Internet's SSL authentication system, aiming to minimize the damage that would result from the compromise of one of the ...

SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can’t be trusted? Well, it turns out they can’t be ...

SSL requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but with some of those third parties compromised, researchers look for alternatives SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure ...