The maintainers of the OpenSSL library, one of the more widely deployed cryptographic libraries on the Web, have fixed a serious vulnerability that could have resulted in the revelation of 64 KB of ...

For a more detailed analysis of this catastrophic bug, see this update, which went live about 18 hours after Ars published this initial post. Researchers have discovered an extremely critical defect ...

One of the great things about open source is the availability of diverse approaches. This article examines the critical importance of performance scalability in SSL/TLS libraries, using recent shifts ...

As part of a cybersecurity course, RIT students are helping ensure that internet communications stay secure. For three semesters, students have been patching issues with OpenSSL—a free and open-source ...

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:01:39PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote: > Topic > ===== > buffer overflow in openssl library may lead to remote root exploit > > Solution > ===== > upgrade to openssl-0.9.6e ...

A tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. The findings showed that ...

System administrators, I hope you weren’t planning to have an easy day today? Not only will Microsoft be releasing critical patches later on Tuesday (including the last ever security patches for ...

Topic ===== buffer overflow in openssl library may lead to remote root exploit Problem Description ===== A security audit of the OpenSSL code found several buffer overflows in OpenSSL which affect ...