OpenSSL patched a high-severity vulnerability in its deployment on the Online Certificate Status Protocol, and also mitigated the SWEET32 attack. A vulnerability in the OpenSSL implementation of the ...

X.509 Digital certificates are used in a variety of security protocols to provide identity management. X.509 Digital certificates are used in a variety of security protocols to provide identity ...

Last Thursday afternoon, Mac users everywhere began complaining of a crippling slowdown when opening apps. The cause: online certificate checks Apple performs each time a user opens an app not ...

The company says it doesn’t keep tabs on the apps macOS users run The company says it doesn’t keep tabs on the apps macOS users run is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Several global certificate authorities have joined forces ...

Stripping OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) and CRL (certificate revocation list) checks from Google Chrome could have dangerous implications because it will turn Google into a single point of ...

Google plans to remove online certificate revocation checks from future versions of Chrome because it considers the process inefficient and slow. Browsers currently check if a website’s SSL ...

Everyone's talking about it: The Great Certificate Revocation Storm of 2014. Because of the Heartbleed bug, a very large number of SSL/TLS web sites need to revoke and reissue their certificates. The ...