Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com> writes:

On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:

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To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense of security.

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.

But revocation doesn't work, and people don't install updates, so this is only a *theoretical* success. -- Leif Nixon - Security officer National Supercomputer Centre - Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing Nordic Data Grid Facility - European Grid Infrastructure