The SSL certificate authorities like Comodo that have had their security undermined by hackers shouldn’t be trusted, and in fact, the way the entire SSL certificate industry of today works can and ...

Open-source software developer Kai Engert has proposed an overhaul to the Internet’s SSL authentication system, aiming to minimize the damage that would result from the compromise of one of the ...

SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can’t be trusted? Well, it turns out they can’t be ...