The term IoT, or the Internet of Things, is usually presented with a set of superlatives about growth and opportunity. Devices such as electronic controllers and sensors have existed in closed systems such as the automotive industry since the late 80’s and in industrial environments for even longer....
Security is one driving factor in the evolution of technology. Here’s a timeline showing how the history of SSL/TLS and PKI advanced as security needs increased since its introduction in 1995. The timeline was created by Ivan Ristić of Feisty Duck, who has done a fantastic job of documenting SSL/TL...
Over the past year or so, I’ve had the luxury of working with a group of individuals inside and outside of our organization to explore the role of trust within the context of the bigger changes taking place within the infosec ecosystem and enterprise architecture. We’re turning some of these learnin...
While we may be culturally conditioned to believe that the setting of pen to paper is a “symbolic and weighty act”, a wet ink signature is really only weak evidence that somebody agreed to do something. Several years ago we quoted a press article on this matter, and we want to revisit this topic in ...
We recently released statistics that show how incorporating an Entrust Datacard instant issuance solution into a financial institutions portfolio can produce year-over-year growth in purchase volume and transactions. Today, instant issuance continues to expand into bank and credit union branch loca...
Details surrounding the SWEET32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN can be found in the paper released by Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaëtan Leurent from INRIA in France. The paper shows that cipher suites using 64-bit block length ciphers are vulnerable to plaintext recovery...
Cryptography was originally developed to secure communications, i.e., data in transit (alternatively, data in motion). A central objective of any cryptographic system was – and still is – to ensure that messages exchanged between senders and receivers were safe from unwanted interception. However, t...
