Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

[Leif Nixon <nixon () nsc liu se>]

Harald Koch <chk () pobox com> writes:

> On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
> > To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the
> > latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually
> > do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense
> > of security.
>
> This story strikes me as a success - the certs were revoked
> immediately, and it took a surprisingly short amount of time for
> security fixes to appear all over the place.

But revocation doesn't work, and people don't install updates, so this
is only a *theoretical* success.

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Leif Nixon - Security officer
National Supercomputer Centre - Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing
Nordic Data Grid Facility - European Grid Infrastructure