Tag: ssl certificates

Neutralizing and protecting against rogue TLS certificates in the wild

August 17, 2017

Techniques for fighting mis-issuance of TLS certificates The web has reached the tipping point where encrypted traffic – connections protected by HTTPS, which is HTTP over SSL/TLS – has overtaken unencrypted (HTTP) traffic. There are many reasons for this change, variously called HTTPS Everywhere or Always-On SSL, which we described in a previous FYI blog […]

Everything You Wanted to Know about SSL Certificates

January 8, 2013

SSL certificates are pervasively used on the Internet for securing all the data sent between servers, devices, clouds, phones, computers, etc. SSL certificates are intrinsic in the encryption of communications using “SSL and TLS” (how do these work? What is the difference?) — you can’t have secure communications without them! In this article, we answer many common […]