Posts Tagged SSL

A Comparison of HTTPS Reforms

An old adage in cryptology is that encrypting data is always easy, but key distribution is always hard. Just a few days ago, Google reported that yet another wrongfully-issued certificate had been found for Google’s domains. As a result of many incidents and problems with CA-issued certificates, many different proposals have been made to improve the system. Google’s Certificate Transparency page compares some of the proposals; but it did not include my favorite idea, I thought it did not do justice to some of the other competing proposals, and it glossed over some of CT’s big issues. I evaluated all the proposals according to these criteria and put together the below spreadsheet to compare their strengths and weaknesses.

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Adding Easy SSL Client Authentication To Any Webapp

Let’s face it, if you are using passwords on your web site or application, you are part of the problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re using bcrypt or scrypt, or all the salt in the world, you’re still perpetuating these 11 password problems and pains. But client certificate authentication and even issuance is actually easy with modern browsers. Want to see how easy it can be? Check out the example below.

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