GlobalSign Set to Resume CA Operations

GlobalSign is still in the process of completing the investigation into whether its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, but the company on Tuesday was ready to resume some of its operations under “high-threat” conditions. The company said that it has found evidence that its main...

Replacing the CA System, Millions of Clients at a Time

The Internet was not designed to be a secure network, not by any stretch of the imagination. It was meant to enable giant PDPs and IMPs at one college to talk to their brethren at another college across the country. SSL was an attempt to impose some level of security and trustability on this syst...

The Problem of Issuing Certs For Unqualified Names

The recent attack on Comodo and several of its associated registration authorities has spurred quite a bit of re-examination of the way that the Web’s certificate authority infrastructure works–or doesn’t. One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...