TLS for Applications

Introduction to PKIs & CAs paper
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) 5 April 2017

Introduction to PKIs & CAs paper

If you’re looking for background information on how Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) and Certificate Authorities (CA) support secure and...

Google Cloud Platform gets IPv6 support
How the Internet Works 22 March 2017

Google Cloud Platform gets IPv6 support

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now able to support IPv6 clients using HTTP(S), SSL proxy and TCP proxy...

Watch Live Today! DNS Privacy Workshop Streaming from NDSS 2017
Domain Name System (DNS) 26 February 2017

Watch Live Today! DNS Privacy Workshop Streaming from NDSS 2017

Want to learn the latest about DNS privacy? About the latest research and techniques to protect the confidentiality of...

Apple to mandate TLS in 2017
Internet Technologies 20 February 2017

Apple to mandate TLS in 2017

One of the announcements at the last Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC16) was that Apple would require all apps in...

Let’s Encrypt Today
How the Internet Works 3 December 2015

Let’s Encrypt Today

Let’s Encrypt enters public beta today, which means anyone can now sign-up for free digital certificates. Let’s Encrypt is a new trusted...

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Problems & Recommendations for Stronger Encryption
Encryption 22 October 2015

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Problems & Recommendations for Stronger Encryption

A paper recently published at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Denver, USA raises concerns about...

New RFC 7469 on Certificate Pinning – HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
Internet Technologies 1 May 2015

New RFC 7469 on Certificate Pinning – HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)

A couple of weeks ago those of us interested in Internet security formally received a new tool in our...

Internet.nl Provides An Easy Way To Test Your IPv6, DNSSEC and TLS
Internet Technologies 27 April 2015

Internet.nl Provides An Easy Way To Test Your IPv6, DNSSEC and TLS

“Is Your Internet Up-To-Date?” Does your existing Internet connection work with IPv6 and DNSSEC? Do your web sites support...

TLS-O-MATIC Now Available To Test TLS In Applications
How the Internet Works 12 March 2015

TLS-O-MATIC Now Available To Test TLS In Applications

Do you want to test how well your application supports TLS over HTTP?  If so, you can now head...

Awesome News About HTTPS As A Ranking Signal, Google! Now Can We Please Get IPv6 And DNSSEC, Too?
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) 7 August 2014

Awesome News About HTTPS As A Ranking Signal, Google! Now Can We Please Get IPv6 And DNSSEC, Too?

The big news hitting the online marketing world today is that Google has indicated that the use of HTTPS...

CloudFlare Releases Open Source CFSSL, a TLS/SSL Toolkit
How the Internet Works 11 July 2014

CloudFlare Releases Open Source CFSSL, a TLS/SSL Toolkit

Yesterday the folks over at CloudFlare introduced their “CFSSL” toolkit for working with TLS (SSL) certificates. Their blog post...

STARTTLS Everywhere
Internet Technologies 3 July 2014

STARTTLS Everywhere

The Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) has launched the STARTTLS Everywhere project in an effort to encrypt more communication between Simple Mail Transfer...