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. . .
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