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There are two different protocols you can choose when setting up a third-party email app: POP or IMAP. POP downloads a copy of your emails from your account (mail.aol.com) to the app. This means that if you delete an email from your account after it's been downloaded, the downloaded copy remains in the app. Additionally, POP only downloads ...
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network.The protocol is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, and voice over IP, but its use in securing HTTPS remains the most publicly visible.
Credit card security. When you make a purchase on AOL, we'll only finish the transaction if your browser supports SSL. As you enter your credit card number, SSL encodes it so it's transmitted in a format that prevents eavesdropping or data theft. When it's received by our secure server, your credit card number is never transmitted over the ...
OCSP stapling. The Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) stapling, formally known as the TLS Certificate Status Request extension, is a standard for checking the revocation status of X.509 digital certificates. [1] It allows the presenter of a certificate to bear the resource cost involved in providing Online Certificate Status Protocol ...
HTTP Strict Transport Security ( HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps to protect websites against man-in-the-middle attacks such as protocol downgrade attacks [1] and cookie hijacking. It allows web servers to declare that web browsers (or other complying user agents) should automatically interact with it using only HTTPS connections, which ...
As of Firefox 22, Firefox supports only TLS 1.0 despite the bundled NSS supporting TLS 1.1. Since Firefox 23, TLS 1.1 can be enabled, but was not enabled by default due to issues. Firefox 24 has TLS 1.2 support disabled by default. TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 have been enabled by default in Firefox 27 release.
You can use a third-party email application to send and receive emails, if you'd prefer a different interface. Below are the server settings you'll need to use and links to common email app setup instructions. If you need specific help configuring your app, please contact its manufacturer.
RFC 8954: OCSP Nonce Extension. The Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP) is an Internet protocol used for obtaining the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. [2] It is described in RFC 6960 and is on the Internet standards track. It was created as an alternative to certificate revocation lists (CRL), specifically addressing ...