Results for ‘encryption’

How to Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is an cryptographic tool that allows you to encrypt a web connection on your server. Even if you are not familiar with the term, you have likely seen it in action if you have logged onto...

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Want Security? Abandon FTP for SFTP
Monday, December 19th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Security through obscurity rarely works as well as one would hope. Instead, you run the risk of being hit by an anonymous hacker who found you through a random vulnerability scan. In the old days FTP was the best option...

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Does Your Website Need Ecommerce Hosting?
Sunday, September 11th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE Many people new to web hosting may have the perception that having a website for their business necessarily indicates that they need business hosting or ecommerce hosting. As a result, they often pay more for hosting even when they may...

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Is SSL Necessary for Ecommerce Hosting?
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Tavis J. Hampton  
ARTICLE When you start an ecommerce site, one of the first features you will want to consider is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security).  For a website, SSL allows the site administrator to serve pages over a secure...

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DARPA Invests 5 Million Towards Solving Homomorphic Encryption
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011THN News  
NEWS (The Hosting News) – DARPA, the Defense Advanced Reasearch Projects Agency, announced Tuesday that it will invest 5 million dollars in conjunction with Galois towards figuring out fully homomorphic encryption.  Such encryption involves allowing an encrypted database to be searched...

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