The latest from the 31c3 conference in Hamburg, via Spiegel Online:
Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security »
NSA Documents: Attacks on VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, Tor »
NSA Powerpoint on VPN (PDF) »
This ought to give you a rather detailed picture.
Good news…
“Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Identrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS.”
More information at EFF: Launching in 2015 – A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web »
This is a very good piece over at Techdirt: Nine Epic Failures Of Regulating Cryptography »
Enjoy!
