Re: VerySign Class 1 Authority - bogus SSL certificate?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:39:31 +0930, Chris van der Pennen <chris () sw gotdns org>  said:
> I've been getting SSL certificates from various websites recently that are
> apparently from a "VerySign Class 1 Authority" - note the 'y' in VerySign.
> The certificate expired 6 December 2002.

> The data in Issued To and Issued By are identical.

> This smells very much like an SSL hijack attempt - can anyone shed some
> light on the situation?

Or some webserver package that builds a self-signed certificate so SSL works
without having to pay Verisign, and does so in a "cute" manner that users are
likely to accept the cert without thinking about it. It's probably NOT a hijack
attempt unless you have *OTHER* evidence of that (phishy-looking redirect
javascript on the page, etc....)

Given how little *real* security a signed cert creates, it's probably not worth
worrying about.

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