Certificate Validation
PKI Solutions Webinar Series
Join us for our PKI Solutions webinar series, kicking off March 26, 2020. This will be a year of talking quantum preparedness, validating SSL certificates, multi-cloud key management, ways to improve the security of your PKI, and more. Mark Cooper, aka The PKI Guy, will present and host the webinars. Learn PKI best practices and…
Read MoreThe PKI Guy talks identity management with Jay Schiavo of Entrust Datacard
Q&A with Jay Schiavo, vice president of Entrust Certificate Services Markets, Entrust Datacard TPG: How will nCipher Security strengthen Entrust Datacard’s offering to secure data and verify identities, and reduce risks? JS: The acquisition of the nCipher general purpose HSM business allows Entrust Datacard to provide our customers with solutions that exceed expectations for high-assurance use cases…
Read MoreCertificate Requirements for Apple iOS 13 & macOS 10.15
When the next iOS and macOS major update arrives this fall to iPhones, iPads and Macs there will be changes that impact environments with TLS certificates not current with standards. Certificates with key lengths shorter than 2048, those signed with a SHA1 algorithm, and certificates without the DNS name in the subject alternative name (SAN)…
Read MoreIgnore Revocation Checking – The bane of my existence!
As students in my PKI training classes know, one of the areas I am a vocal about is the blind use of the CRLF_REVCHECK_IGNORE_OFFLINE setting in a PKI environment. I am so adamantly against the use of this setting, I personally refuse to ever explicitly share or type the syntax to enable this nasty beast.…
Read MoreWhat Your Browser Doesn’t Tell You Can Hurt You – Revocation and Internet Explorer
One of the topics I have been using as an example of revocation checking behavior in my PKI In-Depth class is the interesting case of Internet Explorer (IE) and its revocation behavior. Let’s take a moment and have you think about your assumption of how IE is behaving when you go to a HTTPS (SSL/TLS)…
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