Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.

Rodrick Brown wrote:

A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of Internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would have no indication that their HTTPS connection was being monitored/modified.

http://hackaday.com/2008/12/30/25c3-hackers-completely-break-ssl-using-200-p... http://phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/

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ssl itself wasn't cracked they simply exploited the known vulnerable md5 hashing. Another hashing method needs to be used.