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The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model
- Subject: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model
- From: nixon at nsc.liu.se (Leif Nixon)
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:46:14 +0100
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Harald Koch's message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:09:13 -0400")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Harald Koch <chk at pobox.com> writes:
> On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
>> To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the
>> latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually
>> do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense
>> of security.
>
> This story strikes me as a success - the certs were revoked
> immediately, and it took a surprisingly short amount of time for
> security fixes to appear all over the place.
But revocation doesn't work, and people don't install updates, so this
is only a *theoretical* success.
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Leif Nixon - Security officer
National Supercomputer Centre - Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
Nordic Data Grid Facility - European Grid Infrastructure