Do you want to know a secret? You probably do, question is, would you like it if anyone else knew your secret as well? I am guessing not. That is why, on the Internet, we use encryption for the data that we send and receive, just to make sure that someone else is not listening in on our conversation. Encryption is not only used when directly communicating with each other, it is also used for something we call “integrity”, a.k.a. “I want to make sure that I get what the other end is sending without anyone modifying it in transit”. So, use encryption anywhere! read on while we explore the basics on how data is securely transferred from one place to another using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
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The Windows operating systems from its humble beginning up to the point where it is today has gone through tremendous chances to battle all the emerging security threads. Among those are the most rudimentary forms of disruption up to the very sophisticated state sponsored attacks which can lead to the destabilization of society. As the saying goes in the industry, it’s always a rat race.
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A couple of days ago I had to deal with a situation where our vulnerability tool was complaining that the root certificate store wasn’t updated for a while. This process runs every 7 days, so it takes some time before you will notice any error messages, as was in my case. After doing some research it turned out that the update service for the Microsoft root certificate program was blocked. That in turn triggered me to dig into the more technical side of the Microsoft Root certificate program.
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