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EPISODE 156
Broadcast Date:
March 16, 202118 minutes
Podcast Mar 16, 2021Root Causes 156: Kazakhstan Root Attack Revisited
In 2019 the Kazakh government attempted to force its citizens to trust its private root. A recent research paper examines this attack.
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EPISODE 155
Broadcast Date:
March 11, 202115 minutes
Podcast Mar 11, 2021Root Causes 155: Good for Subscribers Is Good for Relying Parties
We explore the relationship between Relying Parties and Certificate Subscribers and the downstream impact of needless certificate incidents and rules.
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EPISODE 154
Broadcast Date:
March 8, 202118 minutes
Podcast Mar 08, 2021Root Causes 154: Did Claus Peter Schnorr Just Break RSA?
A recently published paper claims to have destroyed the RSA algorithm, but many people are skeptical.
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EPISODE 153
Broadcast Date:
March 5, 202123 minutes
Podcast Mar 05, 2021Root Causes 153: Too Many Roots
Trust models in multi-vendor environments are particularly tricky. Learn about best practices in trusted roots for complex, global supply chain ecosystems.
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EPISODE 152
Broadcast Date:
March 2, 202122 minutes
Podcast Mar 02, 2021Root Causes 152: Digital Certificates and the SunSpec Alliance
We discuss how the SunSpec Alliance uses PKI to protect clean energy infrastructure including solar and electric vehicles.
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60 minutes
Webinar Feb 25, 2021The Four Pillars of Certificate Automation
Join Senior Fellow Tim Callan and CTO of PKI Jason Soroko as they discuss in depth the four pillars of certificate automation and the concept they enable.
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EPISODE 151
Broadcast Date:
February 22, 202115 minutes
Podcast Feb 22, 2021Root Causes 151: What Is Rustls?
Rustls is an important emerging alternative to OpenSSL. We discuss the Rust programming language, designed with security in mind from the ground up.
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EPISODE 150
Broadcast Date:
February 16, 202117 minutes
Podcast Feb 16, 2021Root Causes 150: This Podcast Is Not About Alan Turing
We discuss Enigma, history's most famous code system, how it was broken, and how that relates to cryptography today.
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EPISODE 149
Broadcast Date:
February 11, 202112 minutes
Podcast Feb 11, 2021Root Causes 149: Municipal Water Poisoning Through Cyber Attack
We discuss the attempted poisoning of a Florida city's water supply through online security breach.
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EPISODE 148
Broadcast Date:
February 8, 202116 minutes
Podcast Feb 08, 2021Root Causes 148: Can Australia Force Sites to Pay to Link to Content?
A proposed law would require payment for linking to news articles, with broad implications. We discuss this proposal and where things go from here.
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EPISODE 147
Broadcast Date:
February 5, 202112 minutes
Podcast Feb 05, 2021Root Causes 147: Google Titan Secure Key Attack
A new attack allows cloning of the Google Titan secure key. we describe this attack and its implications for Titan and other secure keys.
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EPISODE 146
Broadcast Date:
February 1, 202110 minutes
Podcast Feb 01, 2021Root Causes 146: Congolese ccTLD Takeover
A white hat researcher took over .cd, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's ccTLD. The implications of taking over a top-level TLD are staggering.