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Title: The sunset of a web security standard could bite your browsing Post by: HCK on December 25, 2015, 09:00:15 pm The sunset of a web security standard could bite your browsing
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The basis of trust for secure website connections—between you and a financial institution, you and Twitter, you and your health-care provider—relies on cryptographic shorthand. An outdated form of this shorthand will finally be mostly ditched starting January 1, 2016, and you may see the impact.</p><p> If you run websites, you’ll need to update the digital certificates that are used to form a secure session. But even if you’re just a surfer, you may still encounter problems with sites you frequently visit. Some sites, like Facebook, are trying to provide a smoother migration (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3014160/security/sha-1-cutoff-could-block-millions-of-users-from-encrypted-websites.html), though it’s very late in the figurative day to do so.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3014359/security/the-sunset-of-a-web-security-standard-could-bite-your-browsing.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: The sunset of a web security standard could bite your browsing (http://www.macworld.com/article/3014359/security/the-sunset-of-a-web-security-standard-could-bite-your-browsing.html#tk.rss_all) |