The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL was major news this week. While you are waiting for sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to run on all your servers, let’s take a minute to reflect on how the SSL trust system works and about the kinds of system relationships that depend on it. Just to recap, SSL-based trust derives from […]
Programmability in the Network: Stop a Bleeding Heart…
It is not often the case that a security vulnerability can get the entire Internet talking. And not just the security community on the Internet, but everyone. End-users and IT alike are looking for answers and trying to mitigate Heartbleed. It has its own web site and logo. It’s that big of a deal. Many service providers have […]