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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

13
Sep
2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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Firefox 6.0.2 fixes yet more DigiNotar certificate fallout

07
Sep
2011

Firefox 6.0.2 has just come out, adding more protection to that provided by Firefox 6.0.1, which was necessitated by the mess caused by disgraced Dutch web security company DigiNotar. (DigiNotar is the former Certificate Authority – or so-called “authority” – which managed to issue more than 500 bogus digital certificates in the name of major […]

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