{"id":584,"date":"2018-08-14T15:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/?p=584"},"modified":"2018-08-14T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:27:02","slug":"tls13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/tls13\/","title":{"rendered":"TLS 1.3 &#8212; what is it, and who cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the news:<\/strong>\u00a0 publication of the updated security standard for Internet transport layer security:\u00a0 TLS 1.3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>\u00a0 TLS provides the basis for pretty much all Internet communication privacy and encryption.\u00a0 The big deal with version 1.3 of TLS is that it has been stripped of features with previously-detected vulnerabilities, and extended its security and encryption.\u00a0 TLS 1.3 should be more robust\/even less vulnerable than TLS 1.2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who benefits:\u00a0<\/strong> TLS 1.3 only benefits people using applications and devices that implement it.\u00a0 The good news is that, apparently, major browsers have already implemented and deployed it.\u00a0 Additionally, the hope is that the lighter weight, more straightforward nature of TLS 1.3 (as compared to previous versions) will be attractive to other application and device developers that have been reluctant to implement TLS in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More info:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ietf.org\/blog\/tls13\/\">https:\/\/www.ietf.org\/blog\/tls13\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news:\u00a0 publication of the updated security standard for Internet transport layer security:\u00a0 TLS 1.3 Why it matters:\u00a0 TLS provides the basis for pretty much all Internet communication privacy and encryption.\u00a0 The big deal with version 1.3 of TLS is that it has been stripped of features with previously-detected vulnerabilities, and extended its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cut-to-the-chase","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbjRsG-tls13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkingcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}