One of the advantages of having multiple certification authorities (CAs) from which to choose an SSL certificate is that customers have flexibility to choose a CA that meets the…
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…
CA Security Council (CASC) members Trend Micro, Go Daddy, and Symantec participated in a discussion panel at the 2014 RSA Conference in San Francisco on February 24 entitled “Ne…
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…
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…
Google
Netcraft has published an article stating they have found many bogus SSL certificates. In this case, a bogus certificate is self signed (i.e., not issued from a legitimate certi…
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…
SSL/TLS
The SSL/TLS protocol has more to offer than just providing you with transmission encryption. Its main benefit is that it provides a way for third parties to authenticate connect…
SSL/TLS
Previously, we advised that the [SSL industry must move to the SHA 2 hashing algorithm][1] for certificate signatures. We thought it would be helpful to provide the reasoning be…
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…
