This post was originally published by Bruce Morton & Erik Costlow on the CA Security Council blog. We have recently discussed the benefits of code signing in two posts: Securing Software Distribution with Digital Signatures and Improving Code Signing. These posts covered the role of code signatures...
First, I would like to than Ivan Ristic for his development of the SSL/TLS deployment Best Practices document. This is a simple overview of what a Web server administrator should consider in an SSL deployment. I am also looking forward to Ristic's book, "Bulletproof SSL/TLS and PKI," which hopefull...
This certificate is sometimes called unified communications certificate (UCC), multi-domain certificate or multi-SAN certificate. In this posting, we will call them UCC or UC certificate. The unique feature of the UC certificate is that it takes full advantage of the subject alternative name (SAN) ...
In the last few months, I have been reading blog posts (e.g., Google and Evernote) about certificate subscribers changing their keys from 1024-bit to 2048-bit RSA. I suppose congratulations may be in order. But, on the other hand, what’s been the delay? I’ve post a couple of blogs about key size po...
Congratulations, Mozilla, on your plan to release Firefox 23 that will block mixed content. Website owners who have mixed-content pages will surely be impacted and should make changes. Along with Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera already block mixed content. This means the users of the...
As part of its effort to promote SSL certificate best practices, the CA Security Council (CASC) has offered a couple of blogs on the importance of revocation checking, categorized in Part 1 and Part 2. Here are my summaries of SSL certificate status checking. What is the purpose of a CA-issued SSL ...