A screenshot from the draft of the DANE charter on the IETF website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports published Monday, a few companies involved in Internet security are floating some new ideas around SSL security in the wake of the breach of several Comodo resellers that led to the issuing of certificates for several firms just over a week ago. In a post made Friday to the Google Online Security Blog , Ben Laurie of the Google Security Team described several of the efforts the search giant (and browser-builder) is involved in to help tighten security around domains and SSL certificates. The first is extending the usability of the Google Certificate Catalog, a database of records related to SSL certificates encountered by the company’s web crawlers.






