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CA also issues SSL certificates, which bind the ownership of a website to a set of publicly verifiable cryptographic keys. However, with the growing threat of state-level attacks, this centralized repository of certificates could pose a counterparty risk for users in the future. Attacks are on the rise with over <a href="https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/sslbased-phishing-surges-400-from-1/">267</a> million phishing URLs being sent in 2017. Moreover, <a href="https://info.zscaler.com/whitepaper-ssl-traffic-threats">Zscalar</a> published a Cloud Security Report which reported blocking over 1.7 billion advanced threats hidden in SSL traffic in 2018 alone.