Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business
After embarrassing reports revealed weak private keys, one of which was just a single digit, Indian certification authority eMudhra has decided to take the L and get out of the global SSL/TLS cert game entirely. eMudhra announced Thursday that it was abandoning that arm of its business.
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- ConceptCertificate authorityAn organisation trusted to vouch for a website's identity by signing its certificate.
- ProtocolTLS · Transport Layer SecurityThe encryption protocol behind HTTPS: it keeps traffic between two programs private and proves who the server is.
- ProtocolSSL · Secure Sockets LayerThe retired predecessor of TLS; the name lives on in product names such as OpenSSL and "SSL VPN".