Once again Browsers and Certificate Authorities are in the news over the reported mis issuance of an SSL server certificate to a google.com domain. Discovered by Google most lik…
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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…
Vulnerability
In October 2014, [Google announced POODLE][1], an SSL 3.0 protocol attack. To bring you up to speed, the [SSL/TLS protocol][2] is the most important and popular security protoco…
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…
Short answer: Government CAs can still be considered “trusted third parties,” provided that they follow the rules applicable to commercial CAs. Introduction On July 8 Google ann…
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…
After the CASC’s [previous][1] letter addressing ICANN’s proposal to delegate nearly 2000 new gTLDs for use on the public Internet, ICANN identified and initiated an extensive s…
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…
