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 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published its 1.3 version of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The application allows client/server applications to communicate over the ...

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.

Facebook, Mozilla, and Cloudflare announced today a new technical specification called TLS Delegated Credentials, currently undergoing standardization at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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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 ...

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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 ...

Part 5 of a six-part article: The easiest way to test the encryption is to send an e-mail to the e-mail administrator of the domain you just configured and ask him/her to send you back the headers of ...

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