Let’s Encrypt, the project offering free digital certificates for websites, is now issuing them more broadly with the launch of a public beta on Thursday. The beta label will eventually be dropped as ...

Let's Encrypt, a nonprofit that has played a major role in pushing the use of encryption on the Web, today revoked more than 3 million of its digital certificates after discovering a flaw in the ...

Let’s Encrypt, an organization set up to encourage broader use of encryption on the Web, has distributed 1 million free digital certificates in just three months. The digital certificates cover 2.5 ...

All web communications take place using a standard protocol — the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) — that defines the format of communications between web servers and web browsers. The basic HTTP ...

The digital equivalent of an ID card used in conjunction with a public key encryption system. Also called a "digital ID," "digital identity certificate," "identity certificate" and "public key ...

Today’s Internet economy depends heavily on the security and validity of information. Commerce cannot happen if customers don’t trust the online vendor. Credit card numbers can’t be transmitted ...

Google today became the latest big name to announce that it is beefing up encryption on its digital certificates to stronger 2048-bit encryption keys. Stephen McHenry, director of information security ...

Amazon is now a certificate authority, or CA, and has launched a new service that issues digital certificates for free to developers. With its new CA, Amazon Trust Services (ATS), the company has now ...

Photographic equipment maker Eastman Kodak is focusing on protecting the confidentiality of e-mail communications among employees and business partners by using an encryption technology known as ...