Microsoft Bulks Up Azure Web Sites Encryption

In the wake of last year's National Security Agency spying revelations and after the discovery of the high-profile "Heartbleed" vulnerability, security has become a top priority for cloud services providers.

Microsoft, for its part, is hardening its Azure Web Sites service with support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), announced Erez Benari, an Azure Web Sites program manager. Azure Web Sites is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that enables customers to quickly spin up and scale Websites and applications.

"Elliptic curve cryptography is an encryption technology based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields," explained Benari in a June 9 blog post. "The symmetry and computational complexity in this sort of function allows us to efficiently create a public and private key set that are much harder to break." - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/microsoft-bulks-up-azure-web-sites-encryptio…