We build X.509 chains so you don’t have to
By William Woodruff For the past eight months, Trail of Bits has worked with the Python Cryptographic Authority to build cryptography-x509-verification, a brand-new, pure-Rust implementation of the X.509 path validation algorithm that ...
CVE ALERT! OpenSSL CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflows
After a week of speculation about OpenSSL vulnerabilities, the OpenSSL project disclosed two new CVEs to address buffer overrun vulnerabilities in its cryptographic library that could trigger crashes or lead to remote ...
Celebrating the First X.509 Day: Looking Back on 30+ Years of the X.509 Standard
Whether you’re new to the PKI world, have been around since the development of the standard, or fall somewhere in between, it’s clear that without X.509, there would be no PKI today ...
How to Manage X.509 Digital Certificates
X.509 certificate management is the process of issuing, installing, renewing, and revoking digital certificates. While there is no stronger, easier-to-use authentication and encryption solution than the digital identity provided by X.509 certificates, ...
How X.509 Certificates Were Involved in SolarWinds Attack | Keyfactor
For a moment, we were ready to put 2020 behind us, until this week. It started with reported theft of FireEye’s Red Team tools, and then came the bigger news. FireEye and ...
5 Steps to Scale & Automate X.509 Certificates
The role that digital certificates – such as TLS/SSL and code-signing certificates – play to protect your business has reached critical importance ...
What is an X.509 Certificate? | Keyfactor
An X.509 certificate is a vital safeguard against malicious network impersonators. Without x.509 server authentication, man-in-the-middle attacks can be initiated by malicious access points, compromised routers, etc ...
X.509 Certificate Issuance: Too Slow for DevOps?
X.509 Certificate Issuance: Too Slow for DevOps? kdobieski Thu, 02/07/2019 - 10:09 Will Sargent has written about how the Chain of Trust pertains to the deployment of X.509 certificates: “In TLS, the ...
Let’s Talk about Murphy’s Law for SSL/TLS x.509 Certificate Outages
Let’s Talk about Murphy’s Law for SSL/TLS x.509 Certificate Outages kdobieski Tue, 12/18/2018 - 16:28 Here’s a quick look at Murphy’s Law was not your friend throughout the entire arduous process of ...
What is an X.509 Digital Certificate?
What is an X.509 Digital Certificate? Scott Carter Thu, 09/15/2022 - 09:00 46117 views SSL/TLS certificates are X.509 certificates with Extended Key Usage: Server Authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1). The "Extended Key Usage" extension lists ...
