OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...

Update1: A few hours after this article was published, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt emailed Ars and wrote: “It is way overblown. This will never happen in real code.” The vulnerability, cataloged as ...

Debian, especially its stable branch, is widely regarded as perhaps the most bulletproof Linux distribution. Debian also has the not undeserved reputation of being difficult for those new to Linux to ...

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a critical technology in today's computer oriented world. Without it there would be no secure e-commerce transactions or secure connections. Remember the days when ...