What just happened? Let's Encrypt began issuing free TLS certificates in 2015. After becoming the world's largest certificate authority, the nonprofit is now targeting niche use cases – such as ...

Every digital transaction—checkout, login, API call—runs on a hidden foundation of millions of machine identities. Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, just one type of machine identity, are ...

In Part 1 of my series on Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption, I went over a few basics of encryption, discussed TLS 1.2, and concluded by outlining the improvements TLS 1.3 provided. In this ...

The nonprofit that secures more than 500 million websites with free TLS certificates published a detailed post-quantum migration roadmap June 3, 2026, and its preferred path solves a problem most ...

As digital networks grow in complexity, securing data in transit has become a top priority. Cyber threats, ranging from man-in-the-middle attacks to large-scale data breaches, make strong encryption ...

Microsoft plans to disable older versions of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, the ubiquitous communications encryption used to protect information sent over networks and the Internet.

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.

Managing certificates that hold all your encryption secrets is impossible without the right tool. Here's how to narrow the field. Many years ago, Madonna sang about sharing her secrets with us. While ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GMO GlobalSign, Inc., a global Certificate Authority, today launched TLS Connect, a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool designed specifically for small and medium ...

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Sift today announced that it is the recommended certificate monitoring service for Let’s Encrypt, the world’s most widely used Certificate Authority (CA).

The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a ...