Knowledge Base

Certificate Transparency (CT) is a recent and important development in the world of SSL certificates. Popular browsers require trusted CAs to log all SSL certificates to publicly available CT Logs.

Nearly a year ago our hosts launched Root Causes to provide a forum for discussion of the issues surrounding the critically important PKI technology.

Random number generation is an essential part of successful cryptography. Quantum computers offer to improve this niche technology industry.

2019 saw important changes in the world's cryptographic standards, including changes in browser treatment of SSL certificates, the removal of a public CA from trusted root stores, and progress in building quantum-resistant PKI.

California Senate Bill 327 (SB-327) goes into effect January 1, 2020. This groundbreaking ordinance requires basic security measures for devices deployed in California.

New research out of Indiana University Bloomington reviews nearly 400 "incidents" with public SSL certificates over the course of more than a decade. Join us as we go through the main findings from this piece of original research.

2019 saw the emergence of wholesale attacks on the world's energy infrastructure, an epidemic of ransomware incidents against municipalities, and a number of legislative measures to try to secure this whole set of systems and devices.

2019 has been an eventful year for PKI. In this episode, first in a series of four lookbacks at the year, our hosts discuss how governments sought to control encryption, certificates, and public trust in 2019.

In our industry interactions we frequently run into questions about how PKI and blockchain compare with each other. How do they work similarly or differently? Are they surrogates for each other? Are they complimentary?

Global energy infrastructure continues to find itself under cyber attack from Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Join our hosts as we discuss recent attacks on power plants, why these attacks persist, and possible responses.