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…
PKI Consortium blog
Posts by tag EV
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…
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…
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…
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…
Certification Authorities (CAs) are trusted third parties that authenticate customers before issuing SSL certificates to secure their servers. Exactly how do CAs authenticate th…
Recent news stories have highlighted the need for strong security in online communications, and use of SSL certificates issued by a publicly trusted Certification Authority (CA)…
The latest version of the Firefox Web browser from Mozilla was released on August 6th with a great new security feature called a “mixed content blocker”. In a nutshell, this fea…
