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The bigger issue with the rogue Google SSL cert

30

Aug

2011

Today we saw the discovery of another rogue SSL certificate – this time for *.google.com. The certificate itself was issued five weeks ago. This will allow an attacker to sniff the traffic to virtually all of Google’s services even with HTTPS enabled. Right now, there’s an unconfirmed report this attack is happening in Iran. Frankly, […]

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Falsely issued Google SSL certificate in the wild for more than 5 weeks

30

Aug

2011

Update: Mozilla have announced out of an abundance of caution that they are releasing new versions of Firefox, Firefox Mobile and Thunderbird to revoke the trust of DigiNotar’s root certificate for signing certificates. I presume this is because DigiNotar has not explained how the Google certificate was signed and to prevent further abuse. This could […]

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DEFCON 2011: SSL and the future of authenticity

16

Aug

2011

I had the pleasure of attending Moxie Marlinspike’s DEFCON talk “SSL And The Future Of Authenticity.” Marlinspike is a great presenter and he doesn’t just point out the problems with what we are doing now, but proposes solutions, often with working proof-of-concept code. Marlinspike didn’t disappoint and began the talk with a funny story, rather […]

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