Google’s work on Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), now advancing through the IETF’s PLANTS working group, signals more than a technical upgrade — it points to a fundamental rethink of how digital trust is built and delivered It signals a structural redesign of digital trust architectures....
It’s Monday morning, and a global bank’s customers can’t log into their accounts. Trading desks are stalled, wire transfers are frozen, and call centers are overwhelmed. The culprit isn’t ransomware, a DDoS attack, or even insider sabotage. It’s a single expired certificate embedded in a third-party software library What if that same faul...