Re: Remembering Passwords in IE

[dom () DEVITTO COM (Dom De Vitto)]

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Ooops, further checking with collegues showed:

IE *doesn't* display the pages on https://www-test.whaver.com
but Netscape (4.6) does pop up a box as I said.

Interestingly, IE doesn't complain, it just shows a blank page.

Dom
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From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 3:33 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Re: Remembering Passwords in IE

Thawte issues wildcard certs for $500US.

Bob Madore

Hal Lockhart wrote:
> I suspect that anybody who charges by the cert is not going to want to issue
> you a wildcard cert instead of multiples.
>
> Hal
>
> ===========================================================
> Harold W. Lockhart Jr.             StorageNetworks, Inc.
> Voice: 781-434-6741                100 Fifth Avenue
> Fax:   781-434-6799                Waltham, MA 02451
> hal.lockhart () storagenetworks com   www.storagenetworks.com
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>
> > The hostname->subject common name check isn't optional (or shouldn't
> > be and doesn't appear to be on NS and IE5), but both browsers
> > support the use of a '*' wildcard to allow matching multiple
> > machines in a single domain.
> >
> > So a certificate issued to *.example.com would pass the name
> > check for www.example.com, test.example.com, and rogue.example.com.
> > The version 4 browsers (I haven't tried this lately) would
> > allow the * to be used to mask out larger namespaces (e.g.,
> > *.com). I don't remember, but it seems that one or more
> > browsers allowed a common name of '*' to match any domain name.
> >
> > In practice, the rogue use of this feature (e.g., getting a
> > cert issued to '*' rather than '*.example.com') is supposed to
> > be prevented by diligent Certification Authorities.  Are all
> > the issuing CAs under these 107 trusted root CAs that ship
> > with IE5 applying this diligence? Your guess is as good as mine.
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