Category Archives: SSL TLS security

Explained: How New ‘Delegated Credentials’ Boosts TLS Protocol Security

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Mozilla, in partnership with Facebook, Cloudflare, and other IETF community members, has announced technical specifications for a new cryptographic protocol called “Delegated Credentials for TLS.”

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Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari Plans to Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in 2020

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All major web browsers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, altogether today announced to soon remove support for TLS 1.0 (20-year-old) and TLS 1.1 (12-year-old) communication encryption protoc… Continue reading Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari Plans to Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in 2020→

DROWN Attack — More than 11 Million OpenSSL HTTPS Websites at Risk

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A new deadly security vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL that affects more than 11 Million modern websites and e-mail services protected by an ancient, long deprecated transport layer security protocol, Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv2).

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