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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
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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.
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EPISODE 145
Broadcast Date:
January 29, 202111 minutes
Podcast Jan 29, 2021Root Causes 145: Google Chrome to Distrust CA Camerfirma
Google has announced distrust for Spanish public CA Camerfirma in Chrome build 90. We explain the reasons for (and implications of) this decision.
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EPISODE 144
Broadcast Date:
January 26, 202113 minutes
Podcast Jan 26, 2021Root Causes 144: Whatever Happened to the Green Address Bar?
In recent years the EV SSL "green address bar" has shrunk and evenually disappeared. We walk you through how that came to be.
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EPISODE 143
Broadcast Date:
January 21, 202128 minutes
Podcast Jan 21, 2021Root Causes 143: The Four Pillars of Certificate Automation
The Four Pillars of Certificate Automation are deploy, discover, revoke/replace, and renew, along with the umbrella capability of visibility.
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EPISODE 142
Broadcast Date:
January 18, 202112 minutes
Podcast Jan 18, 2021Root Causes 142: Removing Street and Postal Code from Public Certs
On March 1 Sectigo will remove street address and postal/zip code information from its public certificates of all types. Our hosts explain why.
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EPISODE 141
Broadcast Date:
January 11, 202119 minutes
Podcast Jan 11, 2021Root Causes 141: The Case for Shorter Certificate Lifespans
Our hosts are joined by guest Nick France to discuss the benefits of shorter certificate lifespans for both public and private CAs.
