What is SSL/TLS? SSL and TLS are protocols used on the transport layer, which is used to provide a secure connection between two nodes in a computer network. The first widely used protocol that was ...

It's increasingly common for the data that passes between your browser and a website's server to be encrypted with HTTPS, which makes it impossible for outside snoops to read. But you don't get that ...

Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy. But more quietly, a small ...

Let’s Encrypt was founded in 2012, going public in 2014, with the aim to improve security on the web. The goal was to be achieved by providing free, automated access to SSL and TLS certificates that ...

A majority of Mozilla users were served encrypted pageloads for the first time yesterday, meaning their web browsing data was secured from snoopers and hackers while in transit. The HTTPS milestone ...

Google's ever-changing Transparency Report now includes a page dedicated to tracking encryption progress both at Google and on some of the web's most trafficked sites. Dubbed HTTPS at Google, the new ...

Better web security has become so commonplace that most sites don’t make a big deal about it anymore. Reddit quietly announced on Tuesday it would soon move all users over to HTTPS encryption by ...

After Edward Snowden revealed that online communications were being collected en masse by some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, security experts called for encryption of the entire ...

WWDC 2016: Apple to require HTTPS encryption on all iOS apps by 2017 Your email has been sent At a session at the 2016 WWDC, Apple revealed that it would be requiring all iOS apps to use HTTPS ...

Nonprofit certificate authority Let’s Encrypt hit a major milestone earlier this month: it issued its three billionth HTTPS certificate. The ISRG announced this week that Let’s Encrypt issued its ...

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