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Podcast Mar 16, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Mar 11, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Mar 08, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Mar 05, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Mar 02, 2021
Root 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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Webinar Feb 25, 2021
The 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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Podcast Feb 22, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Feb 16, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Feb 11, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Feb 08, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Feb 05, 2021
Root 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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Podcast Feb 01, 2021
Root 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.