SSL Review: July 2017
The Entrust Datacard monthly SSL review covers SSL/TLS discussions — recaps news, trends and opinions from the industry.
Symantec and TLS …
- Report: Symantec looking to offload troubled certificate business
- DigiCert to Acquire Symantec’s Website Security Business
- Symantec agrees to transfer certificate issuance to third party
- Industry reacts to Symantec certificate authority trust remediation
Issues with Free, DV and DV Wildcard certificate …
Google and HTTPS …
- Google Chrome’s HTTPS ban-hammer drops on WoSign, StartCom in two months
- Final removal of trust in WoSign and StartCom Certificates
- Configure Google Chrome to display certificates directly
- Google’s $80-billion Conflict of Interest
Restricting to TLS 1.2 …
- Restricting Firefox to TLS version 1.2 makes browsing safer
- Verifying and testing that Firefox is restricted to TLS 1.2
- Tweaking Internet Explorer to only use TLS 1.2
Bulletproof TLS Newsletter …
Other News & Notes:
- Why Should Every eCommerce Website Have an SSL Certificate?
- TLS security: Past, present and future
- Revocation is broken
- How to use HTTPS to improve web security
- Announcing Bulletproof SSL and TLS, the 2017 revision
- SSL Precertificates and How They Work
- HTTPS: Secure by design
- The Browsers Need to Stop Helping Hackers Phish
- Positive Trust Indicators and SSL
- Homograph attacks: Don’t believe everything you see
- Moving a Website to HTTPS/SSL tips & tricks
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