Come July, Google Chrome will add stark security warnings that could turn business away from your website if it’s unencrypted. Specifically, Google will brand your site as “not secure” in the address ...

Mozilla is undertaking a series of steps designed to push the Web toward full encryption under the secure hypertext protocol, which protects user traffic from eavesdroppers. “There’s pretty broad ...

The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master ...

For years, Secure Sockets Layer encryption methods have been fundamental to Web security. Recent attacks have called into question whether SSL and the follow-on protocol, Transport Layer Security, are ...

Network encryption was designed for a world in which adversaries needed to break cryptography in real time to extract value.

The security community generally agrees on the importance of encrypting private data: Add a passcode to your smartphone. Use a secure messaging app like Signal. Adopt HTTPS web encryption. But a new ...

Half of the web’s traffic is now encrypted, according to a new report from the EFF released this week. The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, including ...

Encrypted web traffic has gone from a far-off dream from privacy advocates, to something we take for granted and hardly notice. That little green lock or "https" in ...