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  • Beyond the Padlock: Why Certificate Transparency is Reshaping Internet Trust

    Certificate Transparency (CT) creates public, append-only logs of every TLS certificate issued, enabling detection of rogue or mistaken certificates. This article explores how CT has transformed internet PKI by moving from reliance on certificate authority trustworthiness to providing verifiable transparency that major browsers now require.

  • Keeping Your Secrets

    Dennis Sosnoski explains how supposedly-secure connections can be downgraded to the point where they are easily broken and how even at full strength most forms of encryption are vulnerable to data capture and later decryption if your private keys are exposed. In this article you'll learn some ways of making it more difficult for anyone to see or alter your data exchanges.

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