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SSL 2.0 and DROWN
A team of researchers has announced a vulnerability with SSL 2.0 called Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption; otherwise known as DROWN. SSL 2.0 is a version of the SSL/TLS security protocols. It was released in February 1995, but due to security flaws was superseded by SSL 3.0 in 19...
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Bruce Morton
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Apr 2016

SSL Review: November 2015
Entrust's monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions "” recaps news, trends and opinions from the industry. Entrust and CA Security Council Entrust Identity ON discussed: Thwart the Holiday Humbug with These Safe Online Shopping Tips CA Security Council discussed: CA/B Forum Istanbu...
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Bruce Morton
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Dec 2015

EMV Rollout: The Latest News
October 1 was a game-changing day as far as credit cards are concerned. That's because this was the day that the EMV rollout went into effect in the United States. Although "rollout" was the term used to broadly describe what took place, October 1 did not actually signal a mandatory implementation o...
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Entrust
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Oct 2015

D-Day for EMV
It’s October 1 – Do your credit and debit cards have smart chips in them? Are your local and national merchants ready to accept your cards? Do the merchants know how to accept your chip card? Your answer: Maybe? With today as the self-imposed deadline by credit card companies for U.S. adoption of E...
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Entrust
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Oct 2015

The Value of EV Certificates
I had the opportunity to review a verification issue last week, and it had me thinking of the value of EV certificates. First for every SSL/TLS certificate request, our verification teams goes through a validation process to authenticate the identity, ownership or control of the domain name, and au...
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Entrust
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Aug 2015

3 Ways Financial Institutions Benefit From The Cloud
Cloud computing is a platform that's being leveraged by every kind of business, but certain industries are slower to warm to it than others. Banking, which is characterized by a need for top-tier enterprise security, is one sector where high security needs create a strong sense of trepidation when i...
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Entrust
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Jul 2015

What is Server Name Indication?
You have a dilemma. You want to continue to deploy your web service but are running out of IPv4 addresses. You consider deploying multiple virtual servers that will use the same IP address. However, your thought is that you can only have one SSL certificate per IP address. How will you make your ser...
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Bruce Morton
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Jun 2015