Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tubes Clogged, Internets are Broken II

and just to claify, this means that Certificate Authorities using MD5 are broken. Browsers implicitly trust certificates, and to quote:

This ... shows that the certificate validation performed by browsers can be subverted and malicious attackers might be able to monitor or tamper with data sent to secure websites. Banking and e-commerce sites are particularly at risk because of the high value of the information secured with HTTPS on those sites. With a rogue CA certificate, attackers would be able to execute practically undetectable phishing attacks against such sites.

My guess is that this attack will be implemented in the wild in the very near future. . .

Tubes Clogged, Internets are Broken

The Internets are broken!

Set your system date to August 2004 before visiting the site.



More here and here.

Alexander Sotirov et. al. did some really interesting research on creating a fake CA using 300 playstations - Fear!