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 ...

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 ...

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Microsoft plans to disable older versions of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, the ubiquitous communications encryption used to protect information sent over networks and the Internet.

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 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 ...

Do you know what SSL protocols you expose to your users? Are your settings optimized for security? Have you properly deprecated older TLS certs? Here's what you need to know. Most of us take Secured ...

Organizations moving to the TLS 1.3 protocol must decide whether to deploy middleboxes that intercept network traffic for greater visibility, but doing so presents security and regulatory risks. To ...

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants. The US intelligence ...