We have talked about the TLS handshake, and how it can fail. We also marked that a lot of TLS failures had happened because Microsoft tried fixing something. A security updated CVE-2019-1318 has ...

In data communications it is desirable to have faster transfer rates at lower costs. Data compression addresses these demands by reducing the amount of data that must be transferred over a medium of ...

Part 4 of a six-part article: First of all, you must have X.509 server certificate issued by a certification authority (CA) like VeriSign. There are many vendors who provide TLSSSL certificates. They ...

Part 6 of a six-part article: Just because you checked a few boxes on your Microsoft Exchange Server does not mean that there is secure TLS encryption between your domain and another SMTP server that ...

If you’ve followed the steps we laid out in our initial feature, you’ve got a safe Nginx server all set up and working. It’s serving your static pages without any issue. We don’t yet have a database, ...

One of the most common uses of network systems is for e-mail-based communications. As such, a great deal of attention has been given to securing e-mail systems. However, most of this focus has been in ...

Does Server 2008 support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 ? I believe that the answer is 'no' for Server 2008 SP2 and 'yes' for Server 2008 R2. IOW, if you're running IIS-7 on Server 2008 SP2, there's no way to enable ...

TLS or Transport Layer Security is an encryption protocol. It is designed such that communication through TLS remains secure and private. In this post, I will explain what TLS handshake is and how to ...

An academic study published last month shows that despite years worth of research into the woeful state of network traffic inspection equipment, vendors are still having issues in shipping appliances ...