Free Post Let's Encrypt Introducing another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt is an amazing organisation doing an amazing thing by providing certificates at scale, for free. The problem though was that they were the only such organisation for a...
Free Post Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt issues new Root and Intermediate Certificates Let's Encrypt have just issued a bunch of new certificates including a new Root and several Intermediates. These will bring some significant advantages so let's dive in and take a...
Free Post Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt postpone the ISRG Root transition I was looking forward to something happening this month in the world of PKI that has had to be postponed for the 3rd time. Let's Encrypt were going to be...
Free Post Cross-Signing Cross-Signing and Alternate Trust Paths; How They Work In my last couple of posts about CAs and Root Certificates I've talked about something called Alternate Trust Paths. As a result, many people have asked me questions about how...
Free Post Certificate Authorities The Complexities of Chain Building and CA Infrastructure In my previous blog post I looked at the problem of expiring Root CA Certificates and why it exists and you should definitely read that post first. Now though, I'm...
Free Post Certificate Authorities The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients Regular readers will know that I'm very active in the CA / PKI space and even deliver a 2-day advanced training course on the topic. Over the last year or so...
Free Post Ubiquiti Setting up HTTPS on the UDM Pro I recently upgraded my home network to the latest generation of Ubiquiti hardware and with new hardware comes the requirement to set a couple of things up again, things like...
Free Post Security Headers Top 1 Million Analysis - March 2020 It's time for another 6 month update on the state of security online that's a little late! This is the second report using the new data source that was announced...
Free Post Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt to revoke 3,048,289 certificates Yesterday it was announced that Let's Encrypt are to revoke a large number of certificates after identifying a bug in their CA software, Boulder. This blog is here to keep...
Free Post crawl Top 1 Million Analysis - September 2019 Yes, it's that time of year again and the last 6+ months have flown by. Time for a look at the state of security in the Top 1 Million sites...
