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Let’s Encrypt is introducing significant changes to its certificates. The certificate authority is taking steps towards shorter certificate lifespans, new root certificates, and the end of TLS client ...

Let's Encrypt has announced details of its overall policy regarding certificates issued going forward, including 'certificate chain renewal,' 'removal of TLS client authentication EKU (Enhanced Key ...

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The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X ...

People in Internet security circles are sounding the alarm over the issuance of three TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1, a widely used DNS service from content delivery network Cloudflare and the Asia ...

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.

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 ...

Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit certificate authority, is now issuing certificates for IP addresses following years of requests for the feature. The certificate authority previously only issued ...

All connection strings to SQL now default to encrypted and generally need to trust the server certificate. This is easily done in the connection string but I don’t see how to do this in the settings ...