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 ...

Having your computer check for certificate revocation on a server tells you if the certificate being used has been revoked by the certificate authority before it was set to expire. Internet Explorer ...

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 ...

Certificates need to be revoked for all sorts of reasons, but the process is so slipshod, some propose an entirely new system. Why not just enforce existing rules instead? As much as I love public key ...

RSA CONFERENCE 2012 -- San Francisco, Calif. -- The way that browsers perform SSL certificate-revocation checking is so fundamentally flawed that some browser vendors have turned it off altogether, ...

Aggressive adware applications that break the trust between HTTPS (HTTP Secure) websites and users have been at the center of controversy lately. But over the past week, HTTPS interception flaws of ...

Users around the world have had trouble accessing some HTTPS websites due to an error at GlobalSign, one of the world’s largest certificate authorities. As part of ...

Earlier this week, Let’s Encrypt announced that it would revoke roughly three million—2.6 percent—of its currently active certificates. Last night, however, the organization announced that it would ...