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posted by mrpg on Monday March 26 2018, @11:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the Certificate-verification-failed dept.

The web will soon be a little safer with the approval of this new security standard

TLS 1.3 makes a few prominent changes that should keep you safe.

  • The "handshake" between client and server has been streamlined and encryption initiated earlier to minimize the amount of data transmitted in the clear.
  • "Forward secrecy," meaning hackers can't skim decryption keys from one exchange and use it to decrypt others later.
  • "Legacy" encryption algorithms have been removed as options, as these could occasionally be forced into use and their shortcomings leveraged to break the cipher on messages.
  • A new "0-RTT," or zero round-trip time, mode in which the server and client that have established some preliminaries before can get right to sending data without introducing themselves to each other again.

The whole standard is 155 pages long, and really only other engineers will want to dig in. But it's available here if you'd like to peruse it or go into detail on one of the new features.

Also at The Register.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Monday March 26 2018, @08:30PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday March 26 2018, @08:30PM (#658638) Journal

    History of 80 column text.
    In the seventies: could you fit more chars in there? I CAN'T WASTE 80 MEMORY LOCATIONS ON EVERY LINE PAL
    In the first eighties: wow you got an 80 column mode? YEP I LIKE BLURRING EVERYTHING IN THE TV SCREEN
    In the Nineties: i resize the window and it stays 80 column. why? NO IDEA PAL, WINDOWS BUG PROBABLY
    In the Zeroes: look at your puny 80 char window, while i am gaming on dual monitors! YES ACTUALLY I JUST PENETRATED YOUR SYSTEM
    Now: pal, that 80 columns do not fit! ROTATE YOUR FUCKING SMARTPHONE MORON

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