SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is the de facto standard for securing a communication channel between two applications that converse over the Internet. Sun's JSSE (Java Secure Socket Extension) provides ...

The Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) library from Sun Microsystems lets you access a secure Web server from behind a firewall via proxy tunneling.

In January and April 2014, Oracle has released critical Java software security updates. They resolve vulnerabilities that affected the "Java Secure Socket Extension" (JSSE), a software library ...

The Java update's fifth fix impacts server deployment of the Java Secure Socket Extension, addressing an issue with SSL/TLS implementations that was disclosed by security researchers.

The fifth vulnerability affects server deployments of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) and stems from the Lucky Thirteen attack against SSL/TLS implementations that security researchers ...

On the security front, the latest SDK integrates the Java Cryptography Extension, the Java Secure Socket Extension and the Java Authentication and Authorization Service.

Eleven of the Java SE fixes are for client-only vulnerabilities, which can be exploited only through sandboxed Java Web Start applications and sandboxed Java applets. Two of the issues apply to Java ...

One of them also affects Java server deployments and the remaining two affect the client and server deployments of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE).

The fifth vulnerability affects server deployments of the Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) and stems from the Lucky Thirteen attack against SSL/TLS implementations that security researchers ...