What is SSL/TLS? SSL and TLS are protocols used on the transport layer, which is used to provide a secure connection between two nodes in a computer network. The first widely used protocol that was ...

As a university student in 1995, I invented a security protocol to protect data-in-transit as it moves through the network. Today, the world knows this protocol as “secure shell” or SSH. Secure shell ...

Welcome back to another critically-acclaimed (not really) edition of Linux.Ars. On today's Internet, one can never be too careful, so much so that secure services are becoming increasingly common. So ...

The Internet engineering community rebuffed one of its own security gurus this week, by rejecting a request from the inventor of the popular Secure Shell protocol to change the technology’s acronym to ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool for ...

In 1995, young Finnish computer scientist Tatu Ylonen invented the SSH data in-transit security protocol, or "Secure Shell" for short. His goal was to make it more secure for authorized users to ...

NIST released Interagency Report 7966 this week, a guidance document for organizations using the Secure Shell network protocol for automated access. NIST released a report yesterday urging enterprises ...

The Secure Shell (SSH) protocol and software suite is used by millions of system administrators to log into application and service accounts on remote servers using authentication methods that include ...

Without a centralized key management system, it is virtually impossible for a large enterprise to identify all the trust relationships within its SSH environment, leaving the company vulnerable to ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...