Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

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Encrypting web content is nothing new: It's been nearly 20 years since the publication of the specification for encrypting web content by running HTTP over the Transport Layer Security protocol.

There is a movement calling for the encryption of all web traffic. The cause of this could be laid at Edward Snowden's door, but there's no getting away from the fact that in recent years there is an ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

From holiday shopping to fantasy football to remote system administration, web-based communications are undoubtedly critical. These transmissions are all based around Hypertext Transfer Protocol, a ...

The internet is getting more private, whether governments like it or not. Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) is nearing final IETF standardization [1]. It closes the last remaining metadata leak in HTTPS ...

The White House is planning to mandate that all agency websites use HTTPS encryption to protect citizens from online eavesdroppers. While the "HTTPS-Only Standard" makeover likely won’t happen ...

Canada’s Bill C-22 tries to frame lawful access as a bounded public-safety tool, but its technical-capability requirements keep the central encryption question alive: can exceptional access exist ...