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2015-01-21

It’s been a while in the works but I’ve finally changed some things around here. First of all, this blog has been moved to entirely new...

Convergence, an alternative to Certificate Authorities

IT
2012-02-09

In the aftermath of the Diginotar hack, I wrote an article that mentioned we needed a silver bullet to solve the problems with the current state...

Impact of the Diginotar hack

IT
2011-09-07

In June 2011 Diginotar, a Dutch provider of SSL certificates, was hacked. The hack was probably carried out by hackers working for the government of the...

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