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Re: MD5 Considered Harmful Today: Creating a rogue CA certificate
From: "Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf () matasano com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:18:06 -0600
So now that the details are (mostly) out, can you tell us who did what? Jeremy and I have think the RapidSSL serial number was you. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Alexander Sotirov <alex () sotirov net> wrote:
Our research team, consisting of 7 researchers from the United States, Switzerland and the Netherlands, was able to execute a practical MD5 collision attack and create a rogue Certification Authority trusted by all common web browsers. This allows us to perform transparent man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL connections and monitor or tamper with the traffic to secure websites or email servers. The infrastructure of Certification Authorities is meant to prevent exactly this type of attack. Our work shows that known weaknesses in the MD5 hash function can be exploited in realistic attack, due to the fact that even after years of warnings about the lack of security of MD5, some root CAs are still using this broken hash function. More details: http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/ Enjoy! Alex _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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