Landmark decision to reduce digital certificate lifespans aims to strengthen online security, promote automation in certificate management, and prepare for quantum challenges SCOTTSDALE, ...

The Certification Authority Browser Forum has voted to reduce Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security certificates to 47 days by March 2029, in a move that will radically alter existing security ...

Every digital transaction—checkout, login, API call—runs on a hidden foundation of millions of machine identities. Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates, just one type of machine identity, are ...

As of September, all publicly trusted TLS certificates must have a lifespan of 398 days or fewer. According to a statement from Apple from March, where it announced it was “reducing the maximum ...

If you are looking to purchase a 2-year TLS or SSL certificate, you have only two days left before all new certificates will have a maximum 397 day validity period. Web browser and operating system ...

In data communications it is desirable to have faster transfer rates at lower costs. Data compression addresses these demands by reducing the amount of data that must be transferred over a medium of ...

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program. The project, called Let’s Encrypt, is ...