Encryption and secure communications are critical to our life on the Internet. Without the ability to authenticate and preserve secrecy, we cannot engage in commerce, nor can we trust the words of our friends and colleagues.
It comes as some surprise then that insufficient attention has been paid in recent years to strong encryption, and many of our “secure” protocols have been easily broken. The recent Heartbleed, POODLE, CRIME and BEAST exploits put at risk our trust in our networks and in one another.