Questions tagged [certificate-pinning]

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Does a certificate with extended validation provide better security than certificate pinning?

It looks like certificates with extended validation provide better protection than certificate pinning, but I'm unsure about this.
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Higher risk of no certificate pinning on mobile apps vs web apps?

Talking with people, it is frequently considered that having a mobile application without certificate pinning is a vulnerability. But I rarely see people mentioning it for web applications. The question is, why is this issue only mentioned for…
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Cert Pinning on mobile app - does it really require a public SSL cert on the server side?

To implement Cert Pinning on a native mobile app on (e.g. iOS), a new API end-point is being established (e.g. api.example.com). This URL will be setup with a self-signed SSL certificate. This API end-point URL is meant to be consumed only by this…
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A query about SSL pinning

So I have been reading about SSL pinning in context of a requirement where we have to interact with a web service operated by a partner of ours. We have an Android App and we would be making network calls to their service in a WebView(embedded web…