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Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.
From: Sebastian <security-basics () helsinki fi eu org>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:56:40 +0200
A quick (and very non-scientific) thought: Do you have trust in the issuer of your CC?
Do you trust a shop that has "Your major CC accepted" posted on the door?Do you trust someone that can't provide the means to verify that trust, with or without the sign?
Do you, as an average tourist, even know how you could check it? I would think that the answer lies in one of those questions.. -Sebastian Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
Nonsense. The CA is asking for your trust and can only earn revenue basedupon the number of people who trust it.Wrong. The CA gains trust because it manages to get its certificate includedwith the default package for major browsers. It then has to persuade its customers (the server operators) to buy a certificate. It does not have to persuade any user: trust is already implied by the bundling.Of course the CA has to gain the trust of the users... There are many uses for client-based certificates: code signing, user verification, email encryption, automatic mapping of user account to personal certificates, blah blah blah. The business model of commercial CA's is most certainly not limited to server operators only. While personal certificate stores come with pre-trusted root certificates from many CA's to automatically trust many server-based functions, there is a vast market for client certs.T
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Current thread:
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs., (continued)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Ron DuFresne (Feb 17)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Seth Breidbart (Feb 16)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. George Capehart (Feb 16)
- RE: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. David Schwartz (Feb 14)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Vincent Archer (Feb 15)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Thor (Hammer of God) (Feb 15)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. bkfsec (Feb 15)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Thor (Hammer of God) (Feb 16)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. bkfsec (Feb 16)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Stefan Paletta (Feb 17)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Sebastian (Feb 15)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Stefan Paletta (Feb 17)
- RE: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. David Schwartz (Feb 16)
- RE: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Benjamin Franz (Feb 17)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. bkfsec (Feb 17)
- RE: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. David Schwartz (Feb 17)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. bkfsec (Feb 17)
- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Janusz A. Urbanowicz (Feb 12)
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- Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs. Janusz A. Urbanowicz (Feb 16)