Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

Mon Jan 5 21:23:22 UTC 2009

On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:09:34 +0900, Randy Bush said:

> to use your example, the contractor who serves dns for www.bank.example 
> could insert a cert and then fake the web site having (a child of) that 
> cert.  whereas, if the site had its cert a descendant of the ca for all 
> banks, this attack would fail.

All you've done *there* is transfer the trust from the contractor to
the company that's the "ca for the bank".  Yes, the ca-for-banks.com
has a vested interest in making sure none of its employees go rogue and
do something naughty - but so does the DNS contractor.

One could equally well argue that if a site was using the DNS for certs
would be immune to an attack on a CA.

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