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Software SecuritySANS InfoSec Reading Room - Digital Certificates
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Featuring 3 papers as of May 20, 2013
Who do you trust?- By: Matthew Luallen (posted on August 3, 2011)
- While certificates have their uses in a security regimen, they are not a bullet-proof method to ensure the authenticity of software, a person, or communications.
- Security Alert: Fraudulent Digital Certificates
- By: Ferdinand Gomes (posted on October 31, 2003)
- Digital certificates are critical for businesses and customers who download patches, updates and various other forms of software from the Internet.
- What Secure Site Seals Mean to Consumer
- By: KwokKit Chan (posted on October 31, 2003)
- We definitely trust brandname and is the key to locate the merchant in the great internet world of web sites.
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