SSL Review: July 2020

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Entrust Datacard’s monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions — recaps news, trends and opinions from the industry.

Entrust

Why Google’s Verified Mark Certificates (VMC) pilot matters

CA Security Council

One Year Certs

Verified Mark Certificates

BIMI for Gmail: Google Makes Email Identity Indicators Part of Its New Security Updates

398-day Certificate Validity

Mozilla and Reducing TLS Certificate Lifespans to 398 Days

Miss-issued OCSP-Signing Intermediates

Revocation of Misissued OCSP-Signing Intermediates

DigiCert CA revocation

Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle

Bulletproof TLS Newsletter #67

Intermediate certificates with OCSP capability cause trouble

Other News & Notes

Naked Security reports on Firefox 78 is out – with a mysteriously empty list of security fixes
Scott Helme discusses Finding alternate trust paths the easy way; Introducing Chain Builder

TLS/SSL Certificates

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Bruce Morton

Former Director for Certificate Services at Entrust

Bruce Morton is a pioneering figure in the PKI and digital certificate industry. He served as Director for Certificate Services at Entrust from 1997 to 2025. During his tenure, he managed standards implementations, oversaw Entrust’s policy authority, and monitored Entrust Certificate Services for industry compliance.

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