Security News

After issuing 1.7M certificates, Let’s Encrypt CA officially leaving beta (Help Net Security)
2016-04-13 15:55

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit Certificate Authority (CA) backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, and others, is ready to be considered a stable offering. “Since our...

PHP, Python still fail to spot revoked TLS certificates (Help Net Security)
2016-04-01 16:04

In 2012, a group of researchers demonstrated that SSL certificate validation is broken in many applications and libraries, and pointed out the root causes for that situation: badly designed APIs...