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Podcast Aug 30, 2024
Root Causes 416: Subscriber Restraining Order Prevents Revocation
An enterprise SSL subscriber recently used a Temporary Restraining Order to prevent the proper revocation of misissued certificates. We explain.
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Podcast Aug 27, 2024
Root Causes 415: What Can I Do with These New FIPS PQC Standards?
NIST recently released PQC algorithmic standards in FIPS-203, 204, and 205. We describe what is necessary for enterprises to begin using these algorithms.
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Podcast Aug 23, 2024
Root Causes 414: What Are the Revocation Periods for Public Certs?
We detail mandatory revocation periods for leaf certificates and intermediates and explain when a 24-hour versus a 120-hour revocation deadline applies.
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Podcast Aug 16, 2024
Root Causes 413: NIST Releases Standards for Three PQC Algorithms
On August 13, 2024, NIST released its first three standards for PQC algorithms, ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA.
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Podcast Aug 13, 2024
Root Causes 412: Google Throws in the Towel on Eliminating Cookies
We have in the past covered Chrome's initiatives to replace cookies. Now Chrome has announced that for the foreseeable future cookies will remain.
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Podcast Aug 09, 2024
Root Causes 411: PQC Security Levels
Repeat guest Bas Westerbaan of Cloudflare talks through the concept of "security levels" in post-quantum cryptography.
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Podcast Aug 06, 2024
Root Causes 410: CrowdStrike, Automatic Updates, and Walled Gardens
Microsoft blames the problem on the fact that it must, by European law, allow kernel updates to Windows. We unpack the challenges this poses.
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Podcast Aug 02, 2024
Root Causes 409: Mozilla Distrusts Entrust
This week Mozilla chose to follow Chrome in deprecating the Entrust trusted roots. We give you the details and explain why this action matters.
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Webinar Jul 31, 2024
Entrust distrust: now what?
Google Chrome and Mozilla have announced that after Oct 31 and Nov 30 respectively the browsers will distrust newly issued public Entrust SSL certificates.
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Podcast Jul 30, 2024
Root Causes 408: Takeaways from Recent Conversations with PQC Experts
We recap key takaways from recent conversations about post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with leading experts.
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Podcast Jul 26, 2024
Root Causes 407: Whatever Happened to Passkeys?
WebAuthn arrived last year with great fanfare. But here we are in the latter half of 2024, and they are rarely used. In this episode we discuss why.
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Podcast Jul 19, 2024
Root Causes 405: What Is an Adversarial Self-replicating Prompt?
In this episode we explain what an adversarial, self-replicating prompt, otherwise known as a prompt worm.