The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Thu Mar 24 14:53:42 UTC 2011


Harald Koch <chk at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

It would have been much easier if certificate revocation actually worked
properly.

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html

Tony.
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