Last week, Project Everest announced the
preview release of a new cryptographic provider EverCrypt which aims to improve the foundations of internet security. This collaborative effort was developed by Microsoft Research teams in the US, UK, and India, along with Carnegie Mellon University and French research institute Inria.
Project Everest claims that the current foundations of internet security are “brittle”. That’s a well-founded assertion based on several high profile security vulnerabilities. These include the 2014
Heartbleed and
Poodle issues which reached the mainstream press and undermined the security of many websites. But they’re only the
tip of the iceberg.
HTTPS, the widely used protocol for online communications, ensures that data exchanged with a website is private and secure. The padlock in a web browser usually represents it. Internet traffic running through HTTPS is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS). And TLS is a collection of cryptographic protocols, used as the industry standard.
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