Mozilla adding support for key pinning

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Key pinning is a security mechanism that ties a public key (or set of keys) that were issued by a trusted certificate authority to a particular domain, in an effort to prevent the use of fake certificates – something that has been happening frequently lately.

Mozilla is adding support for public key pinning to version 32 of it’s Firefox web browser.

Find out more here:

http://threatpost.com/mozilla-to-support-key-pinning-in-firefox-32/107976

About The Author

Debra Littlejohn Shinder is a technology and security analyst and author specializing in identity, security and cybercrime, utilizing her past experience as a police officer and police academy/criminal justice instructor. She has written numerous books and articles for web and print publications and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation for fourteen years in a row.

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