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My response to a recent blog has resulted in a quick response that I feel obliged to respond.

First of all, the positive: Agreement on the need to invest on a new revocation infrastructure.

“Basically, I see the value in revocation checking and think the investments need to be made

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Some in the industry have responded to my post about the need for the revocation infrastructure.

They put forward an argument defending the need for short lived certificates by saying: “the main reason for them is to address the issue of key compromise“.  They followed it by “The most important thing

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There is much talk on the web about Encryption lately. There has been much talk about whether CAs (Certification Authorities) should care who they enable with encryption or not.

I will attempt at clarifying these issues, as I see the world of PKI and encryption.

So what is Encryption:

the process

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Why IT Management……

Operating system was big in the early days, because it enabled us to manage many different pieces like sound card, video card, hard disk etc without us having to write code directly for each and every hardware. We only have to write code for the operating system, then

With what is happening in the market place with superfish, there is a “realization” of an old and established method called “HTTPS Local Proxy”.

What is it, well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server will explain it in more detail.

*********from Wikipedia************** Filtering of encrypted data Web filtering proxies are not able to peer inside secure sockets HTTP transactions,