Posts Tagged ‘PKI’
Certutil Bug in Windows Server 2016 Fails to Enumerate Issuance, Application Policies and OIDs
Recently one of our colleagues at nCipher in England related to us an issue reported by one of its customers using the certutil -verify -urlfetch command against an issued end-entity certificate on Windows Server 2016 (Build 1607). Running the command with no extra options, the command indicates a failure in the output (see figure below).…
Read MorePKI Glossary of Terms
Over the course of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) design, implementation, and management, you will encounter many terms and acronyms that are defined in this document. The biggest part of the PKI implementation process is meeting with the stakeholders to ask and answer questions about where things are, how they work, what they struggle with today,…
Read MoreThe PKI Guy drills down on PKI operations with Jeff Stapleton, author
Q&A with J.J. Stapleton, co-author of Security without Obscurity: A Guide to PKI Operations
TPG: What practical advice do you have for an organization considering deploying a PKI solution?
JS: There are various PKI architectures to consider. An internal private PKI deployed wholly within the organization, a hosted private PKI deployed at a third-party service provider, or an external public PKI operated by a commercial third party. Each has pros and cons…
Read MoreThe PKI Guy explores quantum-ready solutions with Bruno Couillard of Crypto4A
Q&A with Bruno Couillard, president and CTO, Crypto4A TPG: Your hardware security module (HSM) architecture team has an interesting history in the world of cryptography—can you tell us about that? BC: Many of our team, (including myself and the other three founders) have been consistently in the crypto and cybersecurity space for decades. Some of…
Read MoreObject Identifiers (OID) in PKI
A common question asked in our classes when we cover object identifiers (OIDs) is if there is a list of all the OIDs in a PKI environment. An object identifier is a string of decimal numbers that uniquely identifies an object. Since it isn’t a quick answer, I created this post to go a little…
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