Posts Tagged ‘PKI’
Private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates have been compromised, making it trivial for attackers to forge certificates that would be trusted by unpatched roots of trust. Six of the impacted certificates were for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and trusted by the Apple, Chrome, Microsoft and Mozilla root programs. The other two […]
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Tags: CA, certificate, PKI, tls, trust
Netflix have announced the release of the Message Security Layer protocol (MSL), which they describe as ‘A Modern Take on Securing Communication’. The project is available on github under the Apache 2.0 license, with implementations in Java and JavaScript. The high level goals of the protocol are to improve performance, be cross language, flexible and extensible, […]
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Tags: MSL, Netflix, open source, PKI, SSL, tls
This isn’t a post about consumer DRM, which I think has been covered well enough before by Cory and others (though some of the Bob=Carol issues still apply). Enterprises have a load of stuff that they need to (or are obliged to) protect. This is a post about the issues that I see with entitlements […]
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Tags: ADL, cryptography, DLP, DRM, encryption, ERM, idm, PKI
