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Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases


From: fredrik danerklint <fredan-nanog () fredan se>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:46:04 +0200

How about a TXT record with the CN string of the CA cert subject in it?
If it exists and there's a conflict, don't trust it.  Seems simple
enough to implement without too much collateral damage.

Needs to be a DNSSEC-validated TXT record, or you've opened yourself up
to attacks via DNS poisoning (either insert a malicious TXT that matches
your malicious certificate, or insert a malicious TXT that intentionally
*doesn't* match the vicitm's certificate)....

And how do you validate the dnssec to make sure that noone has tampered with 
it.

-- 
//fredan


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