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Petr Švenda

About the author

Petr Švenda is a security researcher and teacher at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He first touched the domain of security certifications in 2002 while working on side-channel analysis of cryptographic devices for the Czech government and has kept his passion for cryptographic smartcards ever since.

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A data-driven approach for analyzing Common Criteria and FIPS 140 security certificates 

Seccerts is a much-needed tool for data scraping and analysis of security certificates, but creating it was harder than expected. Here’s why. Security certification documents from certification schemes like Common Criteria (CC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) contain valuable, detailed information. Most of it, however, is […]