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394:(EV) certificates as a more rigorous alternative to domain validated certificates. Extended validation is intended to verify not only control of a domain name, but additional identity information to be included in the certificate. Some browsers display this additional identity information in a green box in the URL bar. One limitation of EV as a solution to the weaknesses of domain validation is that attackers could still obtain a domain validated certificate for the victim domain, and deploy it during an attack; if that occurred, the difference observable to the victim user would be the absence of a green bar with the company name. There is some question as to whether users would be likely to recognise this absence as indicative of an attack being in progress: a test using 803:
is a serious shortcoming given that the most commonly encountered technology employing X.509 and trusted third parties is the HTTPS protocol. As all major web browsers are distributed to their end-users pre-configured with a list of trusted CAs that numbers in the dozens this means that any one of these pre-approved trusted CAs can issue a valid certificate for any domain whatsoever. The industry response to this has been muted. Given that the contents of a browser's pre-configured trusted CA list is determined independently by the party that is distributing or causing to be installed the browser application there is really nothing that the CAs themselves can do.
483: 151:) to a Card Issuing Bank to transfer the funds from the card holder's bank account to the payment recipient's bank account. Each payment card presents along with its card data also the Card Issuer Certificate to the POS. The Issuer Certificate is signed by EMV CA Certificate. The POS retrieves the public key of EMV CA from its storage, validates the Issuer Certificate and authenticity of the payment card before sending the payment request to the payment scheme. 50:. A digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate. This allows others (relying parties) to rely upon signatures or on assertions made about the private key that corresponds to the certified public key. A CA acts as a trusted third party—trusted both by the subject (owner) of the certificate and by the party relying upon the certificate. The format of these certificates is specified by the 717:
name, might be true, increasing the certificate's credibility. Eve, however, would have the all-important private key associated with the certificate. Eve could then use the certificate to send a digitally signed email to Bob, tricking Bob into believing that the email was from Alice. Bob might even respond with encrypted email, believing that it could only be read by Alice, when Eve is actually able to decrypt it using the private key.
82:. The client uses the CA certificate to authenticate the CA signature on the server certificate, as part of the authorizations before launching a secure connection. Usually, client software—for example, browsers—include a set of trusted CA certificates. This makes sense, as many users need to trust their client software. A malicious or compromised client can skip any security check and still fool its users into believing otherwise. 502:
server or other entity noted in the certificate. A CA's obligation in such schemes is to verify an applicant's credentials, so that users and relying parties can trust the information in the issued certificate. CAs use a variety of standards and tests to do so. In essence, the certificate authority is responsible for saying "yes, this person is who they say they are, and we, the CA, certify that".
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servers. The top spot has been held by Symantec (or VeriSign before it was purchased by Symantec) ever since survey began, with it currently accounting for just under a third of all certificates. To illustrate the effect of differing methodologies, amongst the million busiest sites Symantec issued 44% of the valid, trusted certificates in use — significantly more than its overall market share."
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The critical weakness in the way that the current X.509 scheme is implemented is that any CA trusted by a particular party can then issue certificates for any domain they choose. Such certificates will be accepted as valid by the trusting party whether they are legitimate and authorized or not. This
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It is difficult to assure correctness of match between data and entity when the data are presented to the CA (perhaps over an electronic network), and when the credentials of the person/company/program asking for a certificate are likewise presented. This is why commercial CAs often use a combination
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protocol. In this example let us suppose that the user logs on to their bank's homepage www.bank.example to do online banking. When the user opens www.bank.example homepage, they receive a public key along with all the data that their web-browser displays. The public key could be used to encrypt data
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issued two certificates to a person claiming to represent Microsoft. The certificates have the name "Microsoft Corporation", so they could be used to spoof someone into believing that updates to Microsoft software came from Microsoft when they actually did not. The fraud was detected in early 2001.
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from the client to the server but the safe procedure is to use it in a protocol that determines a temporary shared symmetric encryption key; messages in such a key exchange protocol can be enciphered with the bank's public key in such a way that only the bank server has the private key to read them.
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in May 2015, the industry standard for monitoring active TLS certificates, "Although the global ecosystem is competitive, it is dominated by a handful of major CAs — three certificate authorities (Symantec, Comodo, GoDaddy) account for three-quarters of all issued certificates on public-facing web
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An attacker who steals a certificate authority's private keys is able to forge certificates as if they were CA, without needed ongoing access to the CA's systems. Key theft is therefore one of the main risks certificate authorities defend against. Publicly trusted CAs almost always store their keys
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For example, suppose an attacker, Eve, manages to get a CA to issue to her a certificate that claims to represent Alice. That is, the certificate would publicly state that it represents Alice, and might include other information about Alice. Some of the information about Alice, such as her employer
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Despite the security measures undertaken to correctly verify the identities of people and companies, there is a risk of a single CA issuing a bogus certificate to an imposter. It is also possible to register individuals and companies with the same or very similar names, which may lead to confusion.
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This mechanism is only safe if the user can be sure that it is the bank that they see in their web browser. If the user types in www.bank.example, but their communication is hijacked and a fake website (that pretends to be the bank website) sends the page information back to the user's browser, the
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Baseline Requirements, adopted November 2011, specified a list of such addresses. This allowed mail hosts to reserve those addresses for administrative use, though such precautions are still not universal. In January 2015, a Finnish man registered the username "hostmaster" at the Finnish version of
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The clients of a CA are server supervisors who call for a certificate that their servers will bestow to users. Commercial CAs charge money to issue certificates, and their customers anticipate the CA's certificate to be contained within the majority of web browsers, so that safe connections to the
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For distributing revocation information to clients, timeliness of the discovery of revocation (and hence the window for an attacker to exploit a compromised certificate) trades off against resource usage in querying revocation statuses and privacy concerns. If revocation information is unavailable
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This is what the certificate authority mechanism is intended to prevent. A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that stores public keys and their owners, and every party in a communication trusts this organization (and knows its public key). When the user's web browser receives the public
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Browsers and other clients of sorts characteristically allow users to add or do away with CA certificates at will. While server certificates regularly last for a relatively short period, CA certificates are further extended, so, for repeatedly visited servers, it is less error-prone importing and
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certificate). The browser already possesses the public key of the CA and consequently can verify the signature, trust the certificate and the public key in it: since www.bank.example uses a public key that the certification authority certifies, a fake www.bank.example can only use the same public
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and the identity of the owner. The matching private key is not made available publicly, but kept secret by the end user who generated the key pair. The certificate is also a confirmation or validation by the CA that the public key contained in the certificate belongs to the person, organization,
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Domain validation suffers from certain structural security limitations. In particular, it is always vulnerable to attacks that allow an adversary to observe the domain validation probes that CAs send. These can include attacks against the DNS, TCP, or BGP protocols (which lack the cryptographic
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The rest of the communication then proceeds using the new (disposable) symmetric key, so when the user enters some information to the bank's page and submits the page (sends the information back to the bank) then the data the user has entered to the page will be encrypted by their web browser.
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Worldwide, the certificate authority business is fragmented, with national or regional providers dominating their home market. This is because many uses of digital certificates, such as for legally binding digital signatures, are linked to local law, regulations, and accreditation schemes for
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One of the most common domain validation techniques involves sending an email containing an authentication token or link to an email address that is likely to be administratively responsible for the domain. This could be the technical contact email address listed in the domain's
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In 2012, it became known that Trustwave issued a subordinate root certificate that was used for transparent traffic management (man-in-the-middle) which effectively permitted an enterprise to sniff SSL internal network traffic using the subordinate certificate.
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has been to "prevent conflicting and overly burdensome local regulation and to establish that electronic writings satisfy the traditional requirements associated with paper documents." Further the US E-Sign statute and the suggested UETA code help ensure that:
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Domain validation implementations have sometimes been a source of security vulnerabilities. In one instance, security researchers showed that attackers could obtain certificates for webmail sites because a CA was willing to use an email address like
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A certificate may be revoked before it expires, which signals that it is no longer valid. Without revocation, an attacker would be able to exploit such a compromised or misissued certificate until expiry. Hence, revocation is an important part of a
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fake web-page can send a fake public key to the user (for which the fake site owns a matching private key). The user will fill the form with their personal data and will submit the page. The fake web-page will then get access to the user's data.
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malware (also known as SkyWiper) contained modules that had an MD5 collision with a valid certificate issued by a Microsoft Terminal Server licensing certificate that used the broken MD5 hash algorithm. The authors thus was able to conduct a
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to a server via the Internet. A certificate is essential in order to circumvent a malicious party which happens to be on the route to a target server which acts as if it were the target. Such a scenario is commonly referred to as a
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of authentication techniques including leveraging government bureaus, the payment infrastructure, third parties' databases and services, and custom heuristics. In some enterprise systems, local forms of authentication such as
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In large-scale deployments, Alice may not be familiar with Bob's certificate authority (perhaps they each have a different CA server), so Bob's certificate may also include his CA's public key signed by a different
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and, since authors and receivers of encrypted messages, apparently, know one another, the usefulness of a trusted third party remains confined to the signature verification of messages sent to public mailing lists.
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Prior to 2011, there was no standard list of email addresses that could be used for domain validation, so it was not clear to email administrators which addresses needed to be reserved. The first version of the
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The CA/Browser Forum publishes the Baseline Requirements, a list of policies and technical requirements for CAs to follow. These are a requirement for inclusion in the certificate stores of Firefox and Safari.
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certified servers work efficiently out-of-the-box. The quantity of internet browsers, other devices and applications which trust a particular certificate authority is referred to as ubiquity.
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a contract relating to such transaction may not be denied legal effect, validity or enforceability solely because an electronic signature or electronic record was used in its formation.
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Larisch, James; Choffnes, David; Levin, Dave; Maggs, Bruce M.; Mislove, Alan; Wilson, Christo (2017). "CRLite: A Scalable System for Pushing All TLS Revocations to All Browsers".
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If the user trusts the CA and can verify the CA's signature, then they can also assume that a certain public key does indeed belong to whoever is identified in the certificate.
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Chung, Taejoong; Lok, Jay; Chandrasekaran, Balakrishnan; Choffnes, David; Levin, Dave; Maggs, Bruce M.; Mislove, Alan; Rula, John; Sullivan, Nick; Wilson, Christo (2018).
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a signature, contract or other record relating to such transaction may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form; and
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in the domain. The theory behind domain validation is that only the legitimate owner of a domain would be able to read emails sent to these administrative addresses.
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are required in some cases to personally know the party whose signature is being notarized; this is a higher standard than is reached by many CAs. According to the
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Therefore, even if someone can access the (encrypted) data that was communicated from the user to www.bank.example, such eavesdropper cannot read or decipher it.
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presents connection latency and privacy issues. Other schemes have been proposed but have not yet been successfully deployed to enable fail-hard checking.
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protections of TLS/SSL), or the compromise of routers. Such attacks are possible either on the network near a CA, or near the victim domain itself.
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key. Since the fake www.bank.example does not know the corresponding private key, it cannot create the signature needed to verify its authenticity.
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If the CA can be subverted, then the security of the entire system is lost, potentially subverting all the entities that trust the compromised CA.
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payment cards are governed by the EMV Certificate Authority, payment schemes that route payment transactions initiated at Point of Sale Terminals (
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Less often, trustworthy certificates are used for encrypting or signing messages. CAs dispense end-user certificates too, which can be used with
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can be used to encrypt data communicated between two parties. This can typically happen when a user logs on to any site that implements the
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Applied Cryptography and Network Security: Second International Conference, ACNS 2004, Yellow Mountain, China, June 8-11, 2004. Proceedings
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due to the technical requirements. While not legally required, new providers may choose to undergo annual security audits (such as
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In 2008, Comodo reseller Certstar sold a certificate for mozilla.com to Eddy Nigg, who had no authority to represent Mozilla.
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for domain.com, but not all webmail systems had reserved the "ssladmin" username to prevent attackers from registering it.
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top 10 million and the Tranco top 1 million websites, lists the six largest authorities by absolute usage share as below.
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issued unauthorized certificates for Google domains. Google thus removed both MCS and the root certificate authority from
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as well as software to enable installation and maintenance of certificates. Let's Encrypt is operated by the newly formed
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In addition to commercial CAs, some non-profits issue publicly-trusted digital certificates without charge, for example
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key from www.bank.example it also receives a digital signature of the key (with some more information, in a so-called
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in 2009 showed that the absence of IE7's EV warnings were not noticed by users, however Microsoft's current browser,
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As of July 2024 the survey company W3Techs, which collects statistics on certificate authority usage among the
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Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
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and was able to obtain a domain-validated certificate for live.fi, despite not being the owner of the domain name.
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trusting the CA issued, rather than confirm a security exemption each time the server's certificate is renewed.
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outline on Online Transaction Management the primary points of US Federal and State statutes enacted regarding
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Smith, Trevor; Dickinson, Luke; Seamons, Kent (2020). "Let's Revoke: Scalable Global Certificate Revocation".
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Due to the cost of revocation checks and the availability impact from potentially-unreliable remote services,
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developed similar guidelines for CA trust. A single CA certificate may be shared among multiple CAs or their
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Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
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The commercial CAs that issue the bulk of certificates for HTTPS servers typically use a technique called "
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As of 24 August 2020, 147 root certificates, representing 52 organizations, are trusted in the
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proposes auditing all certificates in a public unforgeable log, which could help in the prevention of
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when generating signing keys, in order to ensure that the keys are not tampered with or copied.
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A notable case of CA subversion like this occurred in 2001, when the certificate authority
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can be used to obtain a certificate which can in turn be used by external relying parties.
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is largely held by a small number of multinational companies. This market has significant
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One particularly common use for certificate authorities is to sign certificates used in
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On November 18, 2014, a group of companies and nonprofit organizations, including the
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organized the first meeting and is considered the founder of the CA/Browser Forum.
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web browser, 168 root certificates, representing 60 organizations, are trusted by
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in Europe) to be included as a trusted root by a web browser or operating system.
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limit the revocation checks they will perform, and will fail-soft where they do.
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In 2015, a Chinese certificate authority named MCS Holdings and affiliated with
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Security Implications of IPv6 Fragmentation with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
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and treat it as unrevoked (and allow attackers to sidestep revocation).
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the domain. Some Certificate Authorities may accept confirmation using
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Sheffer, Yaron; Saint-Andre, Pierre; Fossati, Thomas (November 2022).
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Microsoft and VeriSign took steps to limit the impact of the problem.
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Large organizations or government bodies may have their own PKIs (
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market, and 96% of organization-validated certificates globally.
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This issue is the driving impetus behind the development of the
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In 2011 fraudulent certificates were obtained from Comodo and
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and treat a certificate as if it is revoked (and so degrade
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Implementation weakness of the trusted third party scheme
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CA certificates with varying validation requirements.
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The Shortcut Guide to Managing Certificate Lifecycles
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How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked?
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A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Examples
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June 2004. 934:Villanueva, John Carl. 783:in an HSM that is kept 514:Public-key cryptography 40:certification authority 3176:Kazakhstan MITM attack 2838:Public key certificate 2802:Certificate revocation 2713:Server Name Indication 653:Industry organizations 605:Certificate revocation 599:Certificate revocation 490: 488:public key certificate 3165:Lucky Thirteen attack 3066:Padding oracle attack 2786:Certificate authority 1429:Zusman, Mike (2009). 1215:developer.android.com 1010:(12 September 2013). 694:Baseline requirements 485: 478:Issuing a certificate 406:Validation weaknesses 127:Google Cloud Platform 36:certificate authority 2541:. pp. 539–556. 2506:. pp. 105–118. 2383:Google Security Blog 824:Validation authority 790:CAs sometimes use a 495:digital certificates 375:Validation standards 140:acts as its own CA. 48:digital certificates 1894:Larisch et al. 2017 1316:trends.netcraft.com 709:Supply chain attack 459:ssladmin@domain.com 396:Internet Explorer 7 392:Extended Validation 119:Amazon Web Services 3082:Bar mitzvah attack 2797:Certificate policy 2548:10.1109/sp.2017.17 2427:Osborne, Charlie. 2308:msrc.microsoft.com 1988:"CA/Browser Forum" 1951:on April 10, 2013. 1829:|Updates RFC  1782:|Updates RFC  1704:|Updates RFC  1506:. 17 January 2000. 687:Melih AbdulhayoÄźlu 673:Melih AbdulhayoÄźlu 561:digital signatures 491: 223:X.509 certificates 75:secure connections 18:Certificate server 3188: 3187: 3184: 3183: 2759:Opportunistic TLS 2652:(25 October 2011) 2623:978-1-891562-61-7 2558:978-1-5090-5533-3 2459:. 12 August 2014. 1929:on July 28, 2013. 1870:Chung et al. 2018 1294:news.netcraft.com 1267:. 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Index

Certificate server
cryptography
digital certificates
X.509
EMV
HTTPS
secure connections
man-in-the-middle attack
Mozilla
CA/Browser Forum
resellers
Let's Encrypt
IBM Cloud
Amazon Web Services
Cloudflare
Google Cloud Platform
public key infrastructure
self-signed certificates
EMV
POS
S/MIME
key
TLS/SSL server certificates
barriers to entry
WebTrust
ETSI
Mozilla Firefox
macOS
Microsoft Windows
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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