A whirlwind of activity will cause dramatic shifts across the PKI world in the year ahead Suffice it to say that 2019 was filled with challenges and contentiousness as Certifica…
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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…
Last month saw the final adoption, after 4 years of work, of TLS version 1.3 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This latest iteration of the protocol for secure comm…
This is a good time to offer a reminder that the CASC has a great tool for secure server testing, the [SSL Server Test][1]. The tool grades your server installation and reviews …
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…
FREAK is a new man in the middle (MITM) vulnerability discovered by a [group of cryptographers at INRIA, Microsoft Research and IMDEA][1]. FREAK stands for “Factoring RSA EXPORT…
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…
TLS is quickly becoming a de facto requirement for every website due to increased concerns about spying and Google’s recent move to use HTTPS as a factor in search engine rankin…
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…
Last year, Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist working as a contractor for the National Security Agency (“NSA”), shocked web users around the world by publicizing do…
