News tagged “certificates” · tldlog

Verisign traces digital signature history as it promotes real-time certificate checks

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:06:13 GMT

Verisign's blog revisits the 1976 origins of digital signatures and 1978 digital certificates to explain the motivation behind Verisign Informed, its service for checking the current validity of digital certificates in real time.

Source: Verisign

Internet's root zone DNSSEC key rotates October 11

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:56:46 GMT

The DNS root zone's signing key changes on October 11, 2026, switching from KSK-2017 to KSK-2024, CZ.NIC's Ondřej Filip explains, urging DNS resolver operators to verify support beforehand to avoid outages. Cloudflare offers a test tool to check resolvers.

Source: blog.nic.cz

Verisign launches certificate status service and applies for .pki domain

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:30:49 GMT

Verisign has announced Verisign Informed, a new security product aimed at preventing reliance on outdated certificate information, and confirmed it has applied for the .pki top level domain. The company says the service addresses what it calls stale trust, where systems make decisions based on cached or old certificate data. Verisign Informed works as a certificate status service, returning a cryptographically signed OCSP response that shows whether a certificate has been revoked. The product is currently in limited beta, with a general launch planned for the first half of 2027, while ICANN is due to reveal all new TLD applications, including Verisign's bid for .pki, on Wednesday.

Source: Domain Name Wire