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Seminar details - Malicious-but-cautious certificate authorities

Malicious-but-cautious certificate authorities

( Security (old) Series )

Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham

Date and time: Thursday 4th April 2013 at 11:00
Location: 245, School of Computer Science

Recent attacks on the key-certification mechanism has led to several proposals to improve the way certificate authorities work. In this talk, I develop some ideas around certificate transparency, and describe how a secure messaging system without trusted parties might work.