Encryption

Tech Roundup Week Ending April 14

Michelle Frechette

April 14, 2023

Free vs. Paid SSL • SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are internet protocols that use encryption to secure websites. • SSL certificates can be legally required for specific websites and may help boost a business's reputation,…

WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer's site.

In case you were avoiding the…

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2019

In case you were avoiding the web on April Fool's Day, here's something that was announced that isn't a joke: Cloudflare announced Warp, which is a VPN "for people who don't know what V.P.N. stands for." Warp automatically adds encryption…

Ashley Rich has written a nice…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2018

Ashley Rich has written a nice article detailing PHP Encryption Methods for passwords and sensitive data. Each encryption method has multiple algorithms or ciphers to choose from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Ashley focuses on implementing hashing and…

PrivacyTools.io is a nice hub of…

Brian Krogsgard

December 14, 2016

PrivacyTools.io is a nice hub of information and links with everything from file encryption software, to email solutions, to better securing your operating system. Considering a lot of what we're seeing nearly every day now, where our communications are at…

Let’s Encrypt is out of beta…

April 14, 2016

Let's Encrypt is out of beta and WPTavern points out that (according to Mozilla) more than 90% of the certificates are protecting websites that never had encryption before. Let's Encrypt is a major game changer.

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

WordPress News

ManageWP announced some big updates to their site management services this morning. The highlights are as follows: A much faster base plugin that uses over 80% less memory than before Increased speeds and codebase for both backups and site cloning…