Quantum computing is advancing, and while experts are not sure when there will be a quantum computer powerful enough to break the RSA and ECC cryptographic algorithms that are currently in use, many are operating under the assumption tha…
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Posts by tag ECC
Digital certificate and PKI adoption has changed quite a bit in recent years. Gone are the days where certificates were only synonymous with SSL/TLS; compliance drivers like str…
Looking Back at 2018 2018 was an active year for SSL/TLS. We saw the SSL/TLS certificate validity period drop to 825 days and the mass deployment of Certificate Transparency (CT…
Looking Back at 2017 2017 saw the end of SHA 1 in public trust SSL/TLS certificates and the start of Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) allowing domain owners to author…
It might be hard to believe, but the SSL/TLS Ecosystem is nearly 20 years old. It’s time to take stock and see how we’re doing with regards to TLS certificates. In this article,…
Last week I attended and presented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards][1]. In NIST’s words, “The wor…
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…
Recent revelations from Edward Snowden about pervasive government surveillance have led to many questions about the safety of communications using the SSL/TLS protocol. Such com…
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…
The September 5th joint article by the New York Times and Guardian newspapers on NSA’s and GCHQ’s efforts to circumvent encryption implementation have left many people speculati…
