EFF- Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

beSpacific 2014-04-09

Summary:

“EFF has long advocated for websites to support HTTPS instead of plain HTTP to encrypt and authenticate data transmitted on the Internet. However, we learned yesterday of a catastrophic bug, nicknamed “Heartbleed,” that has critically threatened the security of some HTTPS sites since 2011. By some estimates, Heartbleed affects 2 out of 3 web servers on the Internet. Heartbleed isn’t a […]

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Link:

http://www.bespacific.com/eff-web-needs-perfect-forward-secrecy-ever/

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Berkeley Law Library -- Reference & Research Services » beSpacific

Tags:

cybercrime internet pc security privacy

Authors:

Sabrina I. Pacifici

Date tagged:

04/09/2014, 21:00

Date published:

04/09/2014, 18:54