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I wrote about the [next version of the HTTP protocol][1] 18 months ago. Since then, HTTP/2 has gained significant traction, but not without generating some controversy along the…
PKI Consortium blog
Posts by author Wayne Thayer
Announcement
Since we last [wrote about SSL/TLS performance][1], there has been a lot of activity in the IETF HTTP Working Group, resulting in the February announcement that the next version…
TLS is quickly becoming a de facto requirement for every website due to increased concerns about spying and Google’s recent move to use HTTPS as a factor in search engine rankin…
A deadline set by the CA/Browser Forum for the use of Internal Names is quickly approaching, and many system administrators need to understand how best to adapt to this change. …
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has existed since the mid 1980s, but it is still looked on as the newcomer in the world of SSL, and has only begun to gain adoption in the past…
CA/Browser Forum
In our last [post][1], we made a case for using Organizationally Validated (OV) or Extended Validation (EV) certificates for e commerce, but we didn’t go into detail about the d…
We have previously written about the [different types of SSL certificates][1], but in that article we focused on validation levels. A recent [post on LinkedIn][2] highlighted th…
After the news broke that [40 million credit card numbers were stolen from Target][1] in a data breach of epic proportions, many of their customers went to work checking their a…
Attack
In a previous post titled [Getting the Most Out of SSL Part 2][1] , we touched on the recommendation that Web servers be configured to prefer Transport Layer Security (TLS) vers…
The latest version of the Firefox Web browser from Mozilla was released on August 6th with a great new security feature called a “mixed content blocker”. In a nutshell, this fea…
