The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn’t be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and ...

Open-source software developer Kai Engert has proposed an overhaul to the Internet's SSL authentication system, aiming to minimize the damage that would result from the compromise of one of the ...

Last week, I wrote an article titled Is it time to rethink SSL?, where I pointed out that SSL’s reliance on Certificate Authorities is inherently flawed due to the fact that there is no guarantee that ...

While many pundits would agree the SSL and certificate authority (CA) trust model has some serious flaws, the ubiquitous protocol isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. As a result, various members of the ...

SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can’t be trusted? Well, it turns out they can’t be ...

SSL requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but with some of those third parties compromised, researchers look for alternatives SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure ...