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…
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Last week I attended and presented at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography Standards][1]. In NIST’s words, “The wor…
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…
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has existed since the mid 1980s, but it is still looked on as the newcomer in the world of SSL, and has only begun to gain adoption in the past…
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…
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…
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“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…
