Looking Back at 2014 End of 1024 Bit Security In 2014, the SSL industry moved to issuing a minimum security of 2048 bit RSA certificates. Keys smaller than 2048 are no longer al…
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Code signing certificates are used to sign software objects to authenticate that they originated from a verified source, allowing developers to avoid warnings commonly displayed…
Every time something positive is published about SSL and encryption,such as Google’s recent decision making use of https encryption a favorable rating factor for a website, or n…
Short answer: Government CAs can still be considered “trusted third parties,” provided that they follow the rules applicable to commercial CAs. Introduction On July 8 Google ann…
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…
Code Signing
Looking Back at 2013 Protocol Attacks The year started with a couple of SSL/TLS protocol attacks: [Lucky Thirteen][1] and [RC4 attack][2]. Lucky Thirteen allows the decryption o…
After the CASC’s [previous][1] letter addressing ICANN’s proposal to delegate nearly 2000 new gTLDs for use on the public Internet, ICANN identified and initiated an extensive s…
Certification Authorities (CAs) are trusted third parties that authenticate customers before issuing SSL certificates to secure their servers. Exactly how do CAs authenticate th…
