Twenty years ago, paying your phone or electric bill involved receiving it in the mail, writing a check and mailing it back to the company. Today, that has largely been replaced…
PKI Consortium blog
Posts by tag Encryption
The media is full of stories about how phishing sites are moving rapidly to encryption using anonymous, free DV certificates they use to imitate login pages for popular sites, s…
Things are certainly heating up at the CA/Browser with exciting proposals surrounding inclusion of the Wi Fi Alliance (WFA) as a subjectAltName otherName, new validation methods…
Looking Back at 2016 Fortunately, 2016 was not a year full of SSL/TLS vulnerabilities. Although some researchers did prove old cryptography algorithms should be put out to pastu…
The four letters, “http”, are known to technical and non technical users alike as the beginning of any web address. These have been ubiquitous for many years. But things are abo…
OpenSSL
There is no doubt that content owners and publishers have a duty to encourage trust and the confidence during internet usage by adopting security best practices. If a customer b…
Details surrounding the [SWEET32: Birthday attacks on 64 bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN][1] can be found in the paper released by Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaëtan Leurent …
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,…
It’s tax filing season again, and you need to be aware of scams that tried to steal your sensitive information or even your tax refund. During 2015 the IRS blocked over 4.3 mill…
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…
