(Georgia State University) A thriving marketplace for SSL and TLS certificates — small data files used to facilitate confidential communication between organizations’ servers and their clients’ computers — exists on a hidden part of the Internet, according to new research by Georgia State University’s Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) and the University of Surrey.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/gsu-ags030819.php