The old and insecure MD5 hashing function hasn’t been used to sign SSL/TLS server certificates in many years, but continues to be used in other parts of encrypted communications protocols, including ...

Let's Encrypt has announced details of its overall policy regarding certificates issued going forward, including 'certificate chain renewal,' 'removal of TLS client authentication EKU (Enhanced Key ...

Let's Encrypt, the certificate authority that launched a decade ago to remove the traditional barriers of cost and complexity of obtaining SSL and TLS certificates, has announced some major updates.

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 ...

Researchers have demonstrated new collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 implementations in TLS, IKE and SSH. If you’re hanging on to the theory that collision attacks against SHA-1 and MD5 aren’t ...

Part 3 of a six-part article: The RFC 2246 document states the following: “The cryptographic parameters of the session state are produced by the TLS Handshake Protocol, which operates on top of the ...