Entrust Datacard announces the successful transition from Method 1 domain name validation to comply with Baseline Requirement - Ballot 218 established by the CA Browser Forum. By August 1, 2018, certification authorities (CAs) had to discontinue using a common verification method in the CA industry...
Card carriers
People are hardwired to lend feelings of loyalty and trust to other human beings, not to processes, technologies or even well-known corporate logos. As a marketer in the financial services industry, you might be think: “But I never meet a vast majority of my cardholders face-to-face. When they ca...
Public Key Pinning was great idea at first. Google used static public keys to protect their websites. In doing so, the keys were embedded in Chrome and were useful in helping users find the DigiNotar attack in 2011, and in a mistaken certification authority (CA) certificate issued by TURKTRUST in 20...
For many enterprises, the move to digital business is uncovering the limits of existing trust infrastructures. Rapid growth in the number of deployed certificate authorities (CAs) is contributing to increasing management costs. Central to this, many security teams are grappling with the increased bu...
Since Peter Shor published his eponymous algorithm for factoring composite numbers in 1994, cryptographic experts have speculated over whether and when the quantum computer needed to execute his algorithm on numbers of the size used in present-day public-key cryptosystems would become a reality.  If...