On January 1, 2016, the public trust certification authorities (CAs) will stop issuing SHA 1 signed SSL/TLS certificates. What will happen? Will all websites using SHA 1 fail? N…
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Looking Back at 2015 A number of new tactics proved 2015 was no exception to an active year defending against ever increasing security issues. Vendors found new and creative way…
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…
You have a dilemma. You want to continue to deploy your web service but are running out of IPv4 addresses. You consider deploying multiple virtual servers that will use the same…
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…
Attack
All the major browsers provide “security user interface”, meaning visual elements to inform the user of the security of their connection to the web page they’re visiting. Up unt…
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…
Is your website secure? One thing to consider is securing your website with [HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)][1]. Implementation of HSTS is an extension of the [Always On …
UPDATED September 23, 2014: The following blog post has been updated with action taken in recent weeks, as well as to reflect helpful user comments left on our [August 28 blog p…
On August 19, [Google announced a new policy][1] that accelerates the deprecation of SHA 1 certificates, potentially causing websites using SHA 1 certificates to display warning…
