Categories: Anti-malware

Facebook cracks opens its bottle of Fizz – a carbonated TLS 1.3 lib

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs

 
By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 6 Aug 2018
 

 

Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a TLS 1.3 library written in C++14, as an open source project.

 

TLS 1.3 is the latest and greatest version of the Transport Layer Security protocol, the successor to Secure Sockets Layer or SSL, which encrypts network communication between clients and servers. Finalized as a specification in March, it features stronger security and more efficient networking than previous iterations.

 

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