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…
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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…
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…
On October 17th, a group of Czech researchers announced they had found a way to factor the moduli of many RSA public keys generated by hardware produced by Infineon Technologies…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
