Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast

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**Root Causes: A PKI and Security Podcast**

Digital certificate industry veterans Tim Callan and Jason Soroko explore the issues surrounding digital identity, PKI, and cryptographic connections in today’s dynamic and evolving computing world. Best practices in digital certificates are continually under pressure from technology trends, new laws and regulations, cryptographic advances, and the evolution of our computing architectures to be more virtual, agile, ubiquitous, and cloud-based. Jason and Tim (and the occasional guest subject matter expert) will help you stay current on developments in this essential technology platform and to understand the whys and wherefores of popular Public Key Infrastructures.

Latest Episodes:

Root Causes 357: Signed Digital Photographs Jan 26, 2024

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Three major camera manufacturers have joined to create a standard for signed digital images from their cameras.

Root Causes 356: Will MPDV Eliminate Email-based DCV? Jan 22, 2024

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Multi-perspective Domain Validation (MPDV) is a necessary evolution of Domain Control Validation (DCV) to protect against Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) attacks. We explore how MPDV may affect accepted DCV methods, especially the email method.

Root Causes 355: Should a Managed PKI Provider Do Whatever the Customer Wants? Jan 19, 2024

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In this episode we explore whether a managed PKI provider should give complete control over PKI decisions to the end customer or if it should enforce certain minimum standards and principles regardless of what the customer asks for.

Root Causes 354: CyberSlash Attack Against CRYSTALS-Kyber Jan 16, 2024

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A newly published attack against common implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber illustrates how cryptographic implementations can be vulnerable even if the cyphers themselves remain sound.

Root Causes 353: Why Isn't PKI Everywhere? Jan 09, 2024

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Our hosts firmly believe that PKI is a necessary component of all digital interactions. And yet there are still gaps in PKI implementation. We discuss these gaps and why they persist.

Root Causes 352: FBI Vs. End-to-end Encryption in Meta Apps Jan 04, 2024

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Meta is finally rolling out end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps. This is the latest chapter in the long story of government versus encryption. We rant a little about this.

Root Causes 351: 2024 Predictions Dec 27, 2023

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We look forward to 2024 and predict trends for PKI, certificates, and digital identity. We discuss shortening certificate lifespans, Multi-perspective Domain Validation (MPDV), eIDAS 2.0, OCSP, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), passwords, root stores, and government versus encryption. Plus, will Jason be sent to the gulag for not being Canadian enough?

Root Causes 350: Public Certificates and the GDPR Right to Be Forgotten Dec 21, 2023

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GDPR provides a "right to be forgotten," whereby individuals can demand the removal of PII from IT systems. This can run directly contrary to the transparency and permanence built into the DNA of public PKI systems. We explore this conundrum.

Root Causes 349: 2023 Lookback - Overall Trends Dec 18, 2023

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We look back at PKI in 2023. Trends include artificial intelligence, enterprise crypto agility, the fall of OCSP, PKI everywhere, the weakness of passwords, and government versus the internet. We also look at last year's predictions and compare them to the year's events.

Root Causes 348: What Is a Merkle Tree? Dec 15, 2023

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One foundational element of modern cryptographic systems is the Merkle tree. Merkle tree is an enabler of blockchain and CT logs, among other things. We explain this data structure, its properties, and its use cases.

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