Encryption and secure communications are critical to our life on the Internet. Without the ability to authenticate and preserve secrecy, we cannot engage in commerce, nor can we trust the words of our ...

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting. When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced ...

Bitcoin mining company Cipher Mining surged more than 34% after revealing a new 15-year deal with tech giant Amazon, adding to a wave of partnerships between major technology companies and crypto ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Widespread adoption of the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks—and corresponding data protection—to the web. All of the popular sites you visit every day likely offer this ...

Learn to use the cipher utility with confidence. This Daily Drill Down walks you through using every cipher switch and shows you exactly what happens in the real world when you use these switches.

SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...