The Heartbleed bug spurred server administrators worldwide to work closely with Certification Authorities (CAs) in rekeying and reissuing potentially vulnerable SSL certificates…
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Posts by tag SSL/TLS
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…
On April 7, 2014, a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library was announced to the Internet community. Aptly labeled as the Heartbleed bug, this vulnerability affects O…
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…
One of the advantages of having multiple certification authorities (CAs) from which to choose an SSL certificate is that customers have flexibility to choose a CA that meets the…
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…
We have previously written about the [different types of SSL certificates][1], but in that article we focused on validation levels. A recent [post on LinkedIn][2] highlighted th…
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Netcraft has published an article stating they have found many bogus SSL certificates. In this case, a bogus certificate is self signed (i.e., not issued from a legitimate certi…
