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Timothy Hollebeek has more than 15 years of computer security experience, including eight years working on innovative security research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He remains heavily involved as DigiCert’s primary representative in multiple industry standards bodies, including the CA/Browser Forum, striving for improved information security practices that work with real-world implementations. A mathematician by trade, Tim spends a lot of time considering security approaches to quantum computing.
This year quantum computing is reaching a turning point. Quantum computing has made significant progress in 2020, and we predict the advancements in 2021 will bring it closer to reality than ever before. However, preparing for post-quantum...
Quantum computing will likely arrive sooner than expected. 2020 has seen many leaps in the advance of quantum computing, including IBM announcing they will have a quantum processor available by the end of 2023. Enterprises need to prepare now...
It was reported recently that due to a technical flaw, it is possible for some Certificate Authorities (CAs) to create valid OCSP responses for certificates that they did not issue and do not control. This creates an issue for the CAs that operate...
DigiCert actively participates in several industry standards groups and discussions. This year many in-person events have been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions, which makes it harder to build relationships through side conversations that foster...
The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) ecosystem relies on root certificates issued by various certificate authorities (CAs) like DigiCert. This is what browsers use to decide which websites can be trusted and which ones can’t. But if any CA can...
The United States Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law on March 27. The CARES Act will provide one-time payments of up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child under age 17. It’s highly likely that...
DigiCert on Quantum 4: NIST Second PQC Standardization Conference In the last article, we discussed how to figure out when to start switching to post-quantum algorithms. In the next few articles, we will discuss the available post-quantum...
Throughout the year, we have been blogging about the quantum computing revolution that is just over the horizon, and its implications for security and cryptography. It’s too early to predict when it will be possible to build a scalable quantum...
A new CA/Browser Forum proposal being discussed now would shorten maximum certificate lifetimes to 13 months. This comes after lifetimes were reduced from 39 to 27 months, effective March 2018. If passed, these changes would go into effect in March...