Improving the security of Internet exchanges

(PhysOrg.com) -- TLS is the main protocol used today to secure exchanges over the Internet. The protocol has been subject to attacks in recent years, resulting in identity theft and data tampering. To address these problems, Mohamad Badra, CNRS researcher at LIMOS (France), has worked in collaboration with the Ineovation company to develop two new extensions to the TLS protocol. These standards were recently published by the Internet Engineering Task Force, an international community which develops Internet standards. These are available to programmers and software vendors for use in information systems.

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