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 ...

Last year, in between writing Take Control books and Macworld articles, I managed to squeeze in another little project – writing the 900-page “Mac Security Bible,” published in January 2010 by Wiley.

I know I have done this before, but I need a way to take a small text file, and encrypt it, and then be able to decrypt it via the command line. I am ...

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 ...

A newly discovered vulnerability that allows spying on encrypted SSL/TLS communications has been identified and fixed in the widely used OpenSSL library. The vulnerability, which is being tracked as ...

Nine software fixes were released Wednesday for OpenSSL, a critical encryption component for exchanging data on the Web, although none of the problems are as severe as the “Heartbleed” issue found in ...

Oh boy.<br><br>Google Hates me. <br>.NET Documentation hates everyone.<br>-- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif ...