In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Every time you log into your bank, send an email, or connect to a VPN, encryption quietly does the heavy lifting. The internet feels simple. The security underneath it? Anything but simplicity. That’s ...

Encryption is the default for online communication, with nearly all web traffic protected by secure protocols like TLS/SSL. Yet, as encryption becomes more ubiquitous by the day, so do the ...