Subject: A better approach to security
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- From: Christophe Meessen <christophe AT meessen.net>
- To: A better approach to security <cacert AT lists.cacert.org>
- Subject: Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?]
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:58:18 +0100
Hello,
I'm a bit confused by the explanation. Where is MD5 used ? Is it used as hash inside the signature or is it used by the PKI in a validity checking shortcut ?
If it is the former, it would be good to know which CA is using MD5 signatures because this is indeed a big mistake.
If it is the later, it would also be good to know what PKI has this weakness. One needs to know if we are exposed and in what way.
It is regrettable the author uses false claims as the SSL is broken because this is confusing the reader.
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christophe Meessen, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Jan Pieter Cornet, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christophe Meessen, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Jan Pieter Cornet, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christoph A., 01/04/2009
- Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?], John W. Moore III, 01/05/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christophe Meessen, 01/05/2009
- Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?], Alain Knaff, 01/05/2009
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Re: [CA cert] SSL Broken?,
Bernhard Froehlich, 01/05/2009
- Re: [CA cert] SSL Broken?, Alain Knaff, 01/05/2009
- Re: [CA cert] SSL Broken?, Bernhard Froehlich, 01/05/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christoph A., 01/04/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Jan Pieter Cornet, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Christophe Meessen, 01/03/2009
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Re: [CA cert] [Fwd: [PGPNET] SSL Broken?],
Jan Pieter Cornet, 01/03/2009
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