ASN.1 - Common crypto encoding schemes

What is ASN.1 and how can I read something that’s encoded with “asn.1”? I’m not going to go into too much detail as there’s other online resources that do this. However, I will link to those resources that do a good job of explaining the details of these standards. Also I’m not an expert, this is just what I have learnt so far (some of which may be wrong).

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Mitigations with TLS

Transport Layer Security TLS) puts a lot of trust on the Certificate Authorities (CAs) and the Domain Name System (DNS). Thus you may want to mitigate some of the risks with TLS rather than just assumpting that because something supports TLS it is secure.

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