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55 posts
Another Sleeping Giant: Microsoft’s Root Program and the 1.1.1.1 Certificate Slip
September 3, 2025
7 min read
PKI & Certificates
Compliance & Audits
Why CP and CPSs Matter More Than You Think
June 4, 2025
5 min read
PKI & Certificates
Compliance & Audits
Rethinking Authentication: “Something You Have,” “Something You Know,” and “Something You Are” for Workloads and Machines
November 26, 2024
3 min read
Identity & Authentication
Security Practice
Navigating Content Authentication In the Age of Generative AI
February 26, 2024
3 min read
AI
PKI & Certificates
Effortless Certificate Lifecycle Management for S/MIME
December 18, 2023
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
The Rise of Key Transparency and Its Potential Future in Email Security
December 18, 2023
5 min read
Cryptography & Keys
PKI & Certificates
Exploring the Potential of Domain Control Notaries for MPDV in WebPKI
March 21, 2023
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
WebPKI, TLS, cross-signs, device compatibility, and TLS record size.
August 16, 2022
10 min read
PKI & Certificates
Why crawling is not an adequate measurement methodology for the WebPKI
August 2, 2022
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Why bother with short-lived certificates and keys in TLS?
May 3, 2017
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Cryptography & Keys
CAs and SSL and Phishing Oh My!
April 1, 2017
7 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
WebCrypto and PKI
April 25, 2014
3 min read
Cryptography & Keys
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
What's in a certificate chain and why?
October 16, 2013
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
The (soon to be) not-so Common Name
August 14, 2013
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
Standards & Governance
Average CRL size and download time
April 19, 2013
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
A look at revocation repository uptime
April 16, 2013
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Why we built the Revocation Report
April 15, 2013
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Certificate-based Mozilla Persona IdP
April 10, 2013
7 min read
Identity & Authentication
PKI & Certificates
Abstract: Using least privileged design principals to improve trust in the online marketplace
February 16, 2013
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
Using CAPICOM on Windows x64
November 18, 2012
1 min read
Engineering & Code
PKI & Certificates
RESTful X509, CRL and OCSP to JSON web-service
September 21, 2012
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
How to tell DV and OV certificates apart
September 11, 2012
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Windows XP and Name Constraints
September 7, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
XP and the undefined Name Constraints
August 16, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Updated my script for Qualified Subordination testing
August 16, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Using ECC keys in X509 certificates
August 16, 2012
2 min read
Cryptography & Keys
PKI & Certificates
Using SHA2 based signatures in X509 certificates
August 16, 2012
2 min read
Cryptography & Keys
PKI & Certificates
How to get your own OID arc
August 16, 2012
1 min read
Standards & Governance
PKI & Certificates
Revocation repositories, IPv6 support, message size, and performance
June 27, 2012
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Measuring OCSP Responder Performance with Powershell
June 20, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Pulse data publicly availible
June 18, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
A look at the new Windows Update SSL certificates
June 17, 2012
7 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in IIS
June 15, 2012
2 min read
Engineering & Code
PKI & Certificates
RSA keys under 1024 bits and you
June 13, 2012
2 min read
Cryptography & Keys
PKI & Certificates
Testing OCSP Stapling
June 13, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
OCSP Stapling in IIS
June 12, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
OCSP Stapling in Apache
June 12, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Flame and Certificate Revocation
June 12, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
Flame was just one use of the Terminal Services Licensing PKI
June 10, 2012
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
How did the Terminal Services Licensing PKI effect you?
June 8, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
How one typically verifies code comes from Microsoft
June 7, 2012
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
The tale of two (Microsoft) PKIs
June 6, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
MSRC 2718704 and the age of the rogue certificates
June 6, 2012
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
MSRC 2718704 and Terminal Services License Certificates
June 6, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
MSRC 2718704 and Nested EKU enforcement
June 6, 2012
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
MSRC 2718704 and the Terminal Services Licensing Protocol
June 4, 2012
4 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
Lightning talk on the “Improving the Availability of Revocation Information” workshop.
May 23, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Browser Revocation Behavior Needs Improvement
March 30, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
OCSP Responder Performance Needs Improvement
March 22, 2012
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
How to do OCSP requests using OpenSSL and CURL
March 20, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Hard revocation checking and why it’s not here yet.
March 11, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Using OpenSSL to create a test Qualified Subordination PKI hierarchy
March 3, 2012
1 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
Least Privilege and Subordinate Certificate Authorities
February 24, 2012
6 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice
How to clear the CryptNet cache in Windows 7
August 31, 2011
2 min read
PKI & Certificates
Engineering & Code
What is a wildcard certificate and why are they a bad idea?
August 17, 2007
3 min read
PKI & Certificates
Security Practice