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What happens when your Web Server Private Key is Leaked?
About this episode
We have been told to take care of our private key that we use on backend servers without clear instructions as to what could happen when that key is leaked. In today’s backend engineering show I discuss exactly what could go wrong when your backend server private key is leaked. Let us discuss
Intro 0:00
What is a Certificate? 1:10
Where is the Private Key used? 4:10
TLS 1.2 with RSA 4:20
Why RSA no longer used 9:00
TLS 1.3 & TLS 1.2 Digital Signature 12:00
How often should you recycle Private Keys 19:00
Resources
https://blog.cloudflare.com/advanced-certificate-manager/
https://heartbleed.com/
https://cabforum.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.mq.sec.doc/q009960_.html
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