Those Pesky Certs

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
4 min readDec 30, 2020

Oh, those pesky X.509 certs. They can cause so many problems with code releases. Of all the things in cybersecurity, digital certificates are probably one of the most important elements of security, but they are possibly one of the least understood. Why? Because education around encryption tends to get past the understanding the meaning of the acronym and stop just after knowing that AES is a symmetric key method and that RSA is a public key technique.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.