Certificate Transparency.

The article offers the author's view on transparency among certificate authorities (CAs). He mentions an HTTPS certificate issued by Vasco Data Security International Inc.'s subsidiary DigiNotar BV which was applied for a man-in-the-middle assault to users in Iran. He notes that the attack has led t...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 40 - 47
Main Author: LAURIE, BEN
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2014
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