Digital certificates are dead - killed by issues of scalability and trust

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Digital certificate authorities are neither authorities, nor entirely secure, argues Miracl CEO Brian Spector. Something new is needed

Digital certificates used to be synonymous with security on the internet - a seemingly trusted enterprise issued the certificates that could verify all of our relationships online. But in recent...

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