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The Entrust Datacard monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions with a recap of news, trends and opinions from the industry. Entrust Datacard discusses: SSL vs. TLS and the movement to a more secure protocol CA/Browser Forum: Clarifies subject distinguished name requirements for SSL/TLS c...
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Several years ago, I wrote "Is it SSL, TLS or HTTPS?" This was a simple blog to talk about the difference between the terms and which term I would use. A lot has happened in the years since I wrote that blog post. The secure protocol called SSL has been deprecated, and everyone is now using TLS. But...
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Entrust Datacard provides information on TLS 1.3 and phone domain name validation methods: TLS 1.3, Less is More Phone Domain Name Validation for SSL Certificates CA / Browser Forum improves domain name and IP address validation by updating requirements and removing the test certificate valida...
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Looking Back at 2018 2018 was an active year for SSL/TLS. We saw the SSL/TLS certificate validity period drop to 825-days and the mass deployment of Certificate Transparency (CT). TLS 1.3 protocol was finally completed and published; and Chrome status bar security indicators changing to remove "sec...
Entrust Datacard’s monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions — recaps news, trends and opinions from the industry.      Entrust Datacard … 20,000 web certificate private keys outed in “business tiff” Distrust of Symantec SSL … Google - Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed...
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The Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat (ROBOT) attack takes advantage of an old vulnerability discovered by Daniel Bleichenbacher in 1998. We have previously seen the Bleichenbacher attack in 2016 when it was used in the DROWN attack on SSL 2.0. The use of a ROBOT attack fully breaks the conf...
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: PROVE IT: How Extended Validation Certificates Are Saving the World CA Security Council discussed: What Kind of SSL/TLS...