Stephen A. Thomas is chief architect for Wave7 Optics. He has been actively involved in TCP/IP standards development for nearly two decades, and has co-authored and contributed to numerous Internet ...

As more system engineers come to grips with the increasing demand for secure e-business and e-commerce over the Web, it is important they understand the significance of targeting a single architecture ...

Hackers are increasingly benefiting from poorly managed encryption technologies deployed by organizations, according to a new report from application networking and security firm A10 Networks in ...

SSL and its descendent, TLS, are protocols that encrypt internet traffic, making secure internet communication and ecommerce possible. The decades-long history of these protocols has been marked by ...

The Internet is a dangerous place. It’s simply too easy to snoop, spoof, and steal unprotected information as it travels over the wires. Last month, I wrote the final article in a series on X.509 ...