Securing Open-Source Software

Good essay arguing that open-source software is a critical national-security asset and needs to be treated as such: Open source is at least as important to the economy, public services, and national security as proprietary code, but it lacks the same standards and safeguards. It bears the qualiti...

Google Outlines Plans to Deprecate RC4, SSLv3

As expected, Google formally announced its intent to move away from the stream cipher RC4 and the SSLv3 protocol this week, citing a long history of weaknesses in both. Adam Langley, a security engineer for the company, announced the plans through a blog post on Thursday. While there isn’t a...