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Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign
From: Jason <security () brvenik com>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 15:55:30 -0400
yossarian wrote:
IIRC, the problem was not that Verisign could not revoke the keys it was that IE had no way of checking the revocation status, It was a MS implementation problem not a problem with the issuing authority. This has been resolved in IE ( in some places ) and you can now enable the revocation checking however it is not enabled by default.What I wonder - will Verisign have set up CRL servers yet? Remember the IE problem when someone got hold of MS certificates? The MS-fix was blacklisting them locally, the real problem was that there was no revocation servers. Then again, how many concurrent connections would they get if MS sent out a critical update? So - stick to PGP - forget about PKI.
Google provided a good place to brush up on the incident. http://www.amug.org/~glguerin/opinion/revocation.html [snip] ... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign, (continued)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Derek Atkins (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Ben Laurie (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 10)
- [OFFTOPIC] PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Kurt Seifried (May 10)
- Re: [OFFTOPIC] PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Georgi Guninski (May 11)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 09)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign Jason (May 10)
- Re: PGP vs. certificate from Verisign yossarian (May 10)