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Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

There's a nice short paper by Swiss Company keyon entitled "Faking EV SSL in IE7": Cheers, Stefan. - Secur

Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >An object lesson in this just fell in my lap -- I just got my first email >from a spammer that links to a web site that uses such a cert, certified by a >CA I've never heard of ("Starfield Technologies, Inc.") Doubtless they sell >discount "Enhanced

Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

>An object lesson in this just fell in my lap -- I just got my first >email from a spammer that links to a web site that uses such a cert, >certified by a CA I've never heard of ("Starfield Technologies, Inc.") Oh, you've heard of them, just not under that name. It's GoDaddy. The green bar certs

Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An object lesson in this just fell in my lap -- I just got my first > email from a spammer that links to a web site that uses such a cert, > certified by a CA I've never heard of ("Starfield Technologies, Inc.") starfie

Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

Perry E. Metzger wrote: [snip] I'm thinking of starting a CA that sells "super duper enhanced security" certs, where we make the company being certified sign a document in which they promise that they're absolutely trustworthy. To be really sure, we'll make them fax said document in on genuine

Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote: | As some of you know, one can now buy "Enhanced Security" certificates, | and Firefox and other browsers will show the URL box at the top with a | special distinctive color when such a cert is in use. | | Many of us have long contended that such things

Re: Code makers and breakers of WWII era

Actually the correct URL is: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections/cryptology.htm On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Ali, Saqib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is another site that has a lot more details and photographs: > http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections/crypto-heb

Re: Code makers and breakers of WWII era

Here is another site that has a lot more details and photographs: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/gessler/collections/crypto-hebern.htm saqib http://doctrina.wordpress.com/ - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "