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The Let’s Encrypt initiative reached yet another milestone this week when it entered public beta, something it claims should help make it easier for website owners to embrace HTTPS encryption. The latest step comes on the heels of the movement issuing its first certificate back in September and becoming an official Certificate Authority in October. Now, anyone...
30 October 2015 - 12:58,
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Timing attacks are an interesting part of computer security. As an extreme example, imagine that your computer took one second to verify each character in your login password. And now imagine that it stopped checking at the first wrong character, for reasons of efficiency. You could quickly figure out the right password by timing how...