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EPISODE 157
Broadcast Date:
March 19, 202112 minutes
Podcast Mar 19, 2021Root Causes 157: New Revocation Research
Research of public revocation information examines revocation behavior from public CAs. Listen for the main takeaways and "revocation transparency."
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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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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.