How Many Types of Digital Certificates Are There?
When we discuss digital certificates, most people think about SSL/TLS certificates. While these are the most “popular,” they are not the only ones. There are actually two more types of certificates: code-signing and user/client certificates, which are equally important to securing our online communications. ... Read More
Cleaning Your Crypto-mess with Enterprise Cryptography Management
Whether you are managing keys and certificates supporting secure shell (SSH), SSL/TLS, and other public key infrastructure (PKI)-related systems and operations, you likely have a crypto-mess on your hands ... Read More
Manual vs. Automated Certificate Management | Keyfactor
X.509 certificate management involves the processes and procedures for buying, deploying, renewing, and revoking certificates in a network of connected applications, servers, systems, or other network parts. Practically all browser clients and server applications test the certificate's validity before connecting to the specified domain. When a web browser detects an ... Read More
Digital Signature vs. Digital Certificate | Keyfactor
Public key cryptography, also called asymmetric encryption, is based on computations that are almost impossible to break using today's fastest computers. But, there is still one problem when using encryption with private and public keys. It is assumed that the public keys are open, meaning that everyone has access to ... Read More
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 ... Read More
When to Use Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Encryption | Keyfactor
Most people today are familiar with the basic idea of cryptography -- encrypting a message to secure it so that it’s not readable to anyone and everyone ... Read More
What is an SSL Certificate and How it Works | Keyfactor
This article is for anyone who seeks a better understanding of SSL certificates, and how they provide security for both Public Internet and Enterprise Intranet connections ... Read More
How InfoSec & DevOps Can Stop Certificate Outages | Keyfactor
For all the gaps that exist between DevOps and security teams as enterprises try to balance speed of development and security simultaneously, there’s one thing that can bring these two teams together: the fight to stop disruptive and costly outages ... Read More
What is an SSL Certificate and How does it Work? | Keyfactor
Before diving into the many benefits and uses of SSL Certificates, it may help understand the underpinning technology. This article provides a brief history lesson on how Secure Socket Layer (SSL) has evolved into Transport Layer Security (TLS) and a simple explanation of how they provide security for both Public ... Read More
