X.509 Digital certificates are used in a variety of security protocols to provide identity management. X.509 Digital certificates are used in a variety of security protocols to provide identity ...

Firefox is one of the most popular and reliable web-browser out there. But there are a few scenarios where Firefox is not able to open a website whereas all other ...

Let's Encrypt, the largest certification authority with over 387 million valid certificates, is moving away from the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP). The CA (Certificate Authority) has now ...

'We are announcing today our intention to end support for OCSP and deploy Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) as soon as possible,' Josh Aas, executive director and co-founder of Let's Encrypt, said ...

Last Thursday afternoon, Mac users everywhere began complaining of a crippling slowdown when opening apps. The cause: online certificate checks Apple performs each time a user opens an app not ...

Stripping OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) and CRL (certificate revocation list) checks from Google Chrome could have dangerous implications because it will turn Google into a single point of ...

Those using the Mozilla Firefox web browser are left unable to access microsoft.com and its subdomains this week. Tests by BleepingComputer confirm the issue relates to SSL certificate validation ...

This article was originally published on Scott Helme’s blog and is reprinted here with his permission. We have a little problem on the web right now and I can only see it becoming a larger concern as ...

In the aftermath of the Heartbleed bug, everyone finally got tired of pointing fingers at OpenSSL, it being too easy to do so. The new finger-pointing game is between supporters and opponents of ...

Everyone's talking about it: The Great Certificate Revocation Storm of 2014. Because of the Heartbleed bug, a very large number of SSL/TLS web sites need to revoke and reissue their certificates. The ...