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April 10-11, 2013 - Workshop on Improving Trust in the Online Marketplace

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting a workshop on April 10-11, 2013 on technical and administrative efforts to increase trust online by improving the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate marketplace supporting Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS). Recent attacks against individuals and companies online have utilized known vulnerabilities in certificate management in order to spoof websites or gain trust to install malicious software without the user's knowledge. A number of new standards and protocols have been suggested to address these and other risks in the current marketplace.  More...