Digital Certificates
Featuring 8 Papers as of January 24, 2017
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The Scary and Terrible Code Signing Problem You Don't Know You Have STI Graduate Student Research
by Sandra Dunn - October 28, 2015SSL 3.0 / TLS 1.0 certificates are built on the X.509v3 PKI standard and provide the framework that the code signing process uses. Code signing uses PKI and X.509v3 certificates issued by a trusted certificate authority to validate that the code being installed on a device comes from a trusted vendor.
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STI Graduate Student Research - This paper was created by a SANS Technology Institute student as part of the graduate program curriculum.
