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The US Makes a Big Step Toward Better Routing Security

The US Department of Commerce began implementing better routing security practices—a step in the right direction for wider MANRS adoption.

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Encryption Isn't Perfect, That's Why Choices Are Important
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Encryption Isn’t Perfect, That’s Why Choices Are Important

Encryption is a critical building block for online trust, but it's never perfect. Any encryption you use is the product of many steps. Encryption methods have to be defined; protocols ...
Encryption Is Key to Safety of Journalists

Encryption Is Key to Safety of Journalists

At a time when we notice increasing and alarming threats to media freedom around the world, World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) is more pertinent today than ever before. We therefore ...
Deconstructing the Encryption Debate: The Internet Society-Chatham House Roundtable on Encryption and Lawful Access Report
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Deconstructing the Encryption Debate: The Internet Society-Chatham House Roundtable on Encryption and Lawful Access Report

Encryption is an important technical building block for Internet trust. It secures our infrastructure, enables e-commerce, ensures the confidentiality of our data and communications, and much more. Yet, because bad ...
Let’s Encrypt Offers Free Multi-Domain HTTPS Certificates
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Let’s Encrypt Offers Free Multi-Domain HTTPS Certificates

Let’s Encrypt, a nonprofit certificate authority launched in 2016, has delivered on its pledge to offer free certificates that enable secure HTTP connections for complete domains. The organization’s new wildcard certificate ...
IETF 101, Day 1: Would You IPv6 It?
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IETF 101, Day 1: Would You IPv6 It?

It's another packed week at IETF 101 in London, and we're bringing you daily blog posts highlighting the topics of interest to us in the ISOC Internet Technology Team. Monday ...
Rough Guide to IETF 101: Privacy, Identity, and Encryption
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Rough Guide to IETF 101: Privacy, Identity, and Encryption

It’s that time again! In this post of the Rough Guide to IETF 101, I’ll take a quick look at some of the identity, privacy, and encryption related activities at ...
CEOs and Encryption: The Questions You Need to Ask Your Experts
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CEOs and Encryption: The Questions You Need to Ask Your Experts

Barely a week passes without something in the news that reminds us of the critical role encryption plays in securing our data. It is a technology that protects so much ...
A Collaborative Effort for pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)
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A Collaborative Effort for pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)

In July 2017, the Internet Society Switzerland Chapter (ISOC-CH) and the Swiss p≡p foundation teamed up to provide a practical solution, namely to implement privacy-enhancing standards at the basic level of Internet ...