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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

13

Sep

2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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DigiNotar Certificate Hack: What Happened and How

12

Sep

2011

The big news in the security industry in the past couple of weeks has been a hack of DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority. We reported on this in late August, and Apple issued a security update last week to fix the problem on Macs.The New York Times has a detailed look at what happened and […]

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Why GlobalSign Made the Right Move to Suspend New Certificates

09

Sep

2011

When you work in computer security, reputation is everything. Certificate authentication authority (CA) GlobalSign on Monday suspended issuance of any new certificates pending the result of an investigation into a claim by a hacker that its security had been compromised. Their swift response maintains their reputation as a leading CA and positions them as an […]

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