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Re: Questions about MD5+CA
From: "Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf () matasano com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:42 -0600
If you take everything in the paper at face value, a couple things mitigate this attack: * The research team had access not only to a cluster of PS3s but to a specially optimized MD5 collision-finding implementation, which they had because Lenstra's team has been playing with a PS3 cluster for awhile. * The research team had access to a currently-unpublished optimization to (presumably the birthday-bits search part of) the collision-finding algorithm, * The attack could be made impractical by randomizing the serial numbers for all future certs issued by RapidSSL (and, presumably, by banning MD5). On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So if someone was able to get a root CA for $20000 - shouldn't we remove the RapidSSL root CA from our browsers with the next browser update? I don't see why people think this would be hard to replicate and hasn't been done previously to RapidSSL. Is it because no one other than that one team can do math or buy PS3s? Microsoft's advisory on this is essentially defaulting to the "No one else has ever done this" position. This is weird. Trusted Roots that could have been used to sign these things need to get re-issued, right? What am I missing here? "You fail and are no longer trusted" seems like a viable option here that people are avoiding for some reason. - -dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJWl3CtehAhL0gheoRAtDfAJ95tDB2CGQxWPsghOtFBlNpFBPWigCfTPNX weve1sPUh11d9s6LGN/OYTk= =1WL2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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