Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...

OpenSSL is a very mighty and complex tool. This page describes only few situations where this software can help requesting and using certificates. On Linux and Macintosh computers the OpenSSL software ...

A Silicon Valley-based encryption company has done the federal government a huge solid, allowing feds to keep using the most common type of open-source crypto. “This is a very unusual sponsorship deal ...

Since Apple ships openssl-0.9.8 with OS X 10.7.3 with most of the headers declared "deprecated", squid won't compile with the --enable-ssl configure option. I've downloaded openssl-1.0.0g from HMUG, ...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a critical technology in today's computer oriented world. Without it there would be no secure e-commerce transactions or secure connections. Remember the days when ...

The security community has been poring over an apparently critical vulnerability in the OpenSSL open source cryptography library, which is set to be patched on the afternoon of Tuesday 1 November, but ...

For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update, which went live about 18 hours after Ars published this initial post. Researchers have discovered an extremely critical defect ...