Podcast
Root Causes 09: 63-bit Serial Numbers


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
March 25, 2019
A recently discovered flaw in common practices reveals that potentially millions of active SSL certificates fall short of cryptographic requirements. Learn how it is that 64-bit certificate serial numbers might offer only 63 bits of entropy and what CAs have to do about it.

