This chapter is a collection of frequently asked questions (FAQ) and corresponding answers following the popular USENET tradition. Most of these questions occurred on the Newsgroup ...

Cybercriminals are using a new method to evade detection to make sure that the traffic generated by their malicious campaigns is not being detected, a technique based on SSL/TLS signature ...

Given recent attacks against older, commonly-used encryption modes RC4 and CBC, the Google team began implementing new algorithms – ChaCha 20 for symmetric encryption and Poly1305 for authentication – ...

Software developers are racing to patch a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers to recover the plaintext of authentication cookies and other encrypted data as they travel over the ...

When visiting a website if you are facing ERR SSL VERSION OR CIPHER MISMATCH error, then primarily it’s not your fault as an end-user. It can happen with any browser, including Chrome, Firefox, or ...

There is a new, remotely exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL that could enable an attacker to intercept and decrypt traffic between vulnerable clients and servers. There is a new, remotely ...

SSL offload to GPU's died about a decade ago, when AES-NI became a meaningful thing. You can do line rate 10G AES on a single cores worth of AES-NI in x86 land, taking the latency hit of pushing that ...

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting. When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced ...

As I’ve mentioned in several recent blogs, enterprise organizations are encrypting more and more of their network traffic. A majority (87%) of organizations surveyed as part of a recent ESG research ...