---
id: 1935
title: "Certificate Pinning: Enhancing Client-Side Security"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/certificate-pinning-enhancing-client-side-security"
published_at: "2024-02-01T02:54:50Z"
tags: ["appsec", "mobile-security", "tls", "pki", "mitm", "certificate-pinning", "client-security", "certificate-authority"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1935"
lang: en
---

# Certificate Pinning: Enhancing Client-Side Security

## Summary

Explains certificate pinning in clients: basic public-key pinning versus more flexible certificate chain pinning, and how each defends against MITM attacks and compromised certificate authorities.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2024-02-01T02:54:50Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/certificate-pinning-enhancing-client-side-security
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1935