I am somewhere between a security person, startup person, and academic. Most recently, I was a product manager at Google, working on adding value to Chrome Security. Previously, I cofounded Censys, an attack-surface management security startup. I left Censys after their Series A. They’ve since raised a Series B Series…
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A “distrust” is when a certification authority (CA) that issues HTTPS certificates to websites is removed from a root store because it is no longer trusted to issue certificates. This means certificates issued by that CA will be treated as invalid, likely causing certificate error interstitials in any browser that…
Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Luckily, they don’t exist yet. The Internet-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography began in 2022 when NIST announced their final candidates for key exchange and signatures in the…