Within web browsing, the certificates are one of the most reliable tools we have at our disposal, adding an additional security layer which serves to prevent communications to be read by third parties. They are automatically installed and we just have to interact with them. Although the recent cyber-attacks have succeeded that we begin to distrust them.
Lately it has become fashionable to install infected certificates that in addition to not provide the promised security, allow other people to read encrypted content apparently. Against this background, it is necessary to obtain tools to analyze the certificates. RCC is one of them. This is a utility that analyzes them and verifies that they are benign. Continue reading “RCC, a utility for detecting infected certificates”