Last year, Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (“NSA”), shocked web users around the world by publicizing do…
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Posts by tag Encryption
In a previous blog ([What Are the Different Types of SSL Certificates?][1]), we described the various types of SSL certificates available from publicly trusted Certificate Autho…
After the news broke that [40 million credit card numbers were stolen from Target][1] in a data breach of epic proportions, many of their customers went to work checking their a…
SSL/TLS
The SSL/TLS protocol has more to offer than just providing you with transmission encryption. Its main benefit is that it provides a way for third parties to authenticate connect…
Mixed Content
There is no doubt that content owners and publishers have a duty to encourage trust and the confidence during internet usage by adopting security best practices. If a customer b…
Code Signing
Looking Back at 2013 Protocol Attacks The year started with a couple of SSL/TLS protocol attacks: [Lucky Thirteen][1] and [RC4 attack][2]. Lucky Thirteen allows the decryption o…
Internet Surveillance The big news at [IETF 88 in Vancouver][1] was the technical plenary on [Hardening the Internet][2] which discussed the issue of pervasive surveillance. Per…
If you are reading this post you are probably already familiar with the use of digital certificates and SSL even if you may not be familiar with the history. Before exploring th…
The September 5th joint article by the New York Times and Guardian newspapers on NSA’s and GCHQ’s efforts to circumvent encryption implementation have left many people speculati…
The latest version of the Firefox Web browser from Mozilla was released on August 6th with a great new security feature called a “mixed content blocker”. In a nutshell, this fea…
