In March 2016, the CA/Browser Forum formed a working group to review potential ways to restructure the forum. The primary goal was to examine ideas so the Forum could work on ot…
PKI Consortium blog
Posts by author Dean Coclin
Twenty years ago, paying your phone or electric bill involved receiving it in the mail, writing a check and mailing it back to the company. Today, that has largely been replaced…
The four letters, “http”, are known to technical and non technical users alike as the beginning of any web address. These have been ubiquitous for many years. But things are abo…
You may have heard in the news that the Chinese Certificate Authority, WoSign, was caught backdating SHA 1 certificates to make it look like they were issued before the December…
Qualified
While some face to face meetings can be rather mundane and boring, that can’t be said about October’s CA/B Forum meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. Guest speaker Andrea Servida from t…
In a previous blog ([What Are the Different Types of SSL Certificates?][1]), we described the various types of SSL certificates available from publicly trusted Certificate Autho…
Microsoft
“CA Day” (also known as CA Conformity Assessment) was hosted by the German company TuVIT in Berlin on January 16, 2014. In attendance were approximately 100 people from mostly E…
Domain Validation (DV) A Domain Validated SSL certificate is issued after proof that the owner has the right to use their domain is established. This is typically done by the CA…
