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EPISODE 274
Broadcast Date:
February 3, 202314 minutes
Podcast Feb 03, 2023Root Causes 274: New Quantum Readiness Law
The U.S. government has a new law requiring that government agencies create plans for migrating to PQC in response to threats from quantum computers.
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Certificate Lifecycle Management and the Integrations Ecosystem
Webinar from Sectigo
Webinar Feb 02, 2023Certificate Lifecycle Management and the Integrations Ecosystem
Certificate lifecycle management helps gain insight into and manage every part of a certificate’s lifecycle – from discovery, to issuance and cancellation.
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EPISODE 273
Broadcast Date:
January 30, 202321 minutes
Podcast Jan 30, 2023Root Causes 273: A Deep Dive on CA Agnostic
We catalog the various ways a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) system can be "CA agnostic."
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EPISODE 272
Broadcast Date:
January 27, 202312 minutes
Podcast Jan 27, 2023Root Causes 272: OCSP's Privacy Problem
Concerns recently have been raised about OCSP real-time certificate checking and its potential to violate privacy.
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EPISODE 271
Broadcast Date:
January 23, 202322 minutes
Podcast Jan 23, 2023Root Causes 271: A Whole Fleet of Identity-based Automotive Hacks
Manufacturers' dependence on non-secret "secrets" such as VIN and email address expose many vulnerabilities.
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EPISODE 270
Broadcast Date:
January 20, 202312 minutes
Podcast Jan 20, 2023Root Causes 270: What Is the Difference Between KEM and PKE?
We explain the difference between Public Key Exchange (PKE) and Key Encapsulation Methods (KEM) and why we're moving from one to another.
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EPISODE 269
Broadcast Date:
January 16, 202310 minutes
Podcast Jan 16, 2023Root Causes 269: Did a Patent Dispute Nearly Derail PQC?
On July 5, 2022 NIST announced its Round 3 PQC winners. That same day, a patent cleared that made this possible.
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EPISODE 268
Broadcast Date:
January 12, 20239 minutes
Podcast Jan 12, 2023Root Causes 268: WAFs Subverted by JSON Bypass
Rising attacks can overcome the protections of Web Application Firewalls (WAF). We explain these attacks and what you should do to ensure you're safe.
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EPISODE 267
Broadcast Date:
January 9, 202323 minutes
Podcast Jan 09, 2023Root Causes 267: Can Quantum Computers Break RSA Today?
New research suggests a quantum computer may be applied to breaking RSA in a different way from Schor's algorithm. We discuss the potential implications.
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EPISODE 266
Broadcast Date:
January 4, 202318 minutes
Podcast Jan 04, 2023Root Causes 266: End-to-end Encryption in the Apple Technology Stack
Recent announcements from Apple lay out a set of expansions in the scope and capability of encryption throughout the Apple ecosystem.
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EPISODE 265
Broadcast Date:
December 28, 202233 minutes
Podcast Dec 28, 2022Root Causes 265: A Banner Year for Post-quantum Cryptography
2022 was post-quantum cryptography's biggest year so far. We go over many developments in PQC, including the NIST round 3 winners.
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EPISODE 264
Broadcast Date:
December 23, 202219 minutes
Podcast Dec 23, 2022Root Causes 264: Crypto Agility for 2023
We define the important needs that are changing the crypto agility landscape, including CA independence, public cloud, PQC, and FIDO 2/WebAuthn.