Trevor Livingston, a software engineer working for PayPal, has outlined in a recent post a number of suggestions to improve the outbound SSL performance of Node.js.

This is a pure JS implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm. It is compatible with OpenSSL and uses elegant math such as Jacobian Coordinates to speed up the ECDSA on pure JS.

SSL Mutual Authentication For the most part, SSL is used that to facilitate encryption and establish trust between clients and web browsers. This is the basic SSL authentication i.e, the server ...

The VPN Consortium has issued a new certification for SSL VPN gateways that tests whether the gear supports JavaScript, a key element of many corporate Web portals.

Fedor Indutny, a core member of the node.js team, has proved that it is in fact possible for an attacker to sniff out the private SSL keys from a server left exposed by the Heartbleed bug. The ...

HTTPS websites are often considered safe by the users, due to the use of the SSL/TLS protocol. As a consequence phishing web pages delivered via this protocol benefit from that higher level of trust ...