The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection is a good analysis and description of HTTPS connections and related security mechanisms.

On February 12, 2009, Brocade, EMC/RSA, HP, IBM, LSI, NetApp, Seagate, and Thales submitted a draft charter proposal for the creation of an OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Technical Committee. An announcement from the companies described the joint development of the KMIP specification, designed "for enterprise key management that is engineered to dramatically simplify how companies encrypt and safeguard information". These companies, leaders in enterprise computing, storage, and security, developed the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) in response to customers' needs to enable the widespread use of encryption.

Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) While the Internet technology evolved since it early inception, the Internet's building blocks are basically the same core protocols adopted by the ARPANET more than two decades ago. During the last twenty years, many vulnerabilities have been identified in the TCP/IP stacks of a number of systems. Some of them were based on flaws in some protocol implementations, affecting only a reduced number of systems, while others were based in flaws in the protocols themselves, affecting virtually every existing implementation [Bellovin, 1989]. Even in the last couple of years, researchers were still working on security problems in the core protocols [NISCC, 2004] [NISCC, 2005].

MD5 Collision demonstrations and exploits explained.

OpenSSL 0.9.8j Released with a minor security fix and added FIPS 140-2 features.