Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:15 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: On 7/01/13 06:48 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ryan Hurst ryan.hu...@globalsign.com wrote: Yeah. Little known fact is that

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Ian, Off list. I am so gad damn angry at myself for seeing this sooner. It all makes sense now. OT: Habe you read http://www.amazon.com/dp/1420059815? Perhaps you contributed or technical edited? Thanks again for your insight. Jeff On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:15 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote:

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread ianG
On 7/01/13 14:15 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Ian, Off list. I suspect not. No matter. iang ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:15 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: ... Yeah. Little known fact is that Mozilla maintains confidential discussions with the CAs. The open group is basically theater, it has been totally owned by the CAs for many years. Mozilla routinely reports no meetings, minutes,

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread ianG
On 7/01/13 15:31 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:15 AM, ianG i...@iang.org wrote: ... Yeah. Little known fact is that Mozilla maintains confidential discussions with the CAs. The open group is basically theater, it has been totally owned by the CAs for many years.

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-07 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-01-07 10:31 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: In addition, Mozilla does not make money form the CAs. What is in it for Mozilla? What was in it for Banking Committee Senators Jon Corzine, Chris Dodd, and Kent Conrad, and Fannie May CEO Jim Johnson?

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:40 PM, d...@geer.org wrote: you may have already seen this, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20908546 Cyber thieves pose as Google+ social network ... The fake ID credentials have been traced back to Turkish security firm TurkTrust which mistakenly

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ryan Hurst ryan.hu...@globalsign.com wrote: In the future, we won't need their honesty. Or the 'honesty' they want use to perceive. Did anyone really think a CA would risk a

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ralph Holz
Hi, On 01/05/2013 12:29 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: Unless all the people who saw it happened to be running Chrome, then it seems quite likely it was used maliciously, surely? The problem is that there are many values that both legitimately and maliciously can take. Turktrust's argument seems to be

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread ianG
HI all, On 5/01/13 15:55 PM, Ralph Holz wrote: On 01/05/2013 12:29 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: Unless all the people who saw it happened to be running Chrome, then it seems quite likely it was used maliciously, surely? The problem is that there are many values that both legitimately and

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Hurst
I have no more information than the rest of you but my read of what they published is that this was not a 'legitimate MITM' case. It sounds to me as if they are saying a customer installed a previously purchased certificate on a firewall for a legitimate purpose -- possibly administration or

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread ianG
Just to top-post on that - I did read up on a lot more references [0], and I see that the claim is that the CA concerned issued the intermediates by mistake. They caught one of them later on and fixed it. The second they did not catch. The holder of the second intermediate then installed it

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Hurst
Ian, I do agree with you that the dynamic configurations of them firewall is the most suspect part of the story. I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt based on my experience managing some UI related efforts inside of Windows -- aka today modern software makes an effort to intuit

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Ryan Hurst ryan.hu...@globalsign.com wrote: Ian, I do agree with you that the dynamic configurations of them firewall is the most suspect part of the story. I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt based on my experience managing some UI related

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Hurst
I've been unable to find a screenshot but this FAQ does suggest that there is an explicit action required to enable HTTPS inspection: https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=solutionid=sk65123 As for what appropriate consequences are for

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ryan Hurst ryan.hu...@globalsign.com wrote: I've been unable to find a screenshot but this FAQ does suggest that there is an explicit action required to enable HTTPS inspection:

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Hurst
It's still not clear it was willful; For example maybe they were using an enterprise CA enable the MiTM for their machines / enterprise users who knew the traffic was monitored and to fix some user reported problem they made a configuration mistake. After all in the end these are just Base64

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Erwann Abalea
2013/1/5 Ryan Hurst ryan.hu...@globalsign.com I've been unable to find a screenshot but this FAQ does suggest that there is an explicit action required to enable HTTPS inspection: https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=solutionid=sk65123

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-05 Thread Ryan Hurst
Erwann, The text in that FAQ refers to the administrator enabling HTTPS inspection, my assumption is that for there to be FAQ references it is 'obvious' in the UI that it can be enabled. That said I don't disagree with most of what you said below. Ryan Hurst Sent from my phone, please

[cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-04 Thread dan
you may have already seen this, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20908546 Cyber thieves pose as Google+ social network The lapse let cyber thieves trick people into thinking they were on Google+ Continue reading the main story Related Stories Cyber-warriors join treasure hunt Insecure

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:40 PM, d...@geer.org wrote: you may have already seen this, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20908546 Cyber thieves pose as Google+ social network The lapse let cyber thieves trick people into thinking they were on Google+ Continue reading the main story

Re: [cryptography] another cert failure

2013-01-04 Thread Ryan Hurst
FYI the article was changed post Dans mail and no longer contains the unsubstantiated references to malicious use quoted in the bellow. Ryan Sent from my phone, please forgive the brevity. On Jan 4, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:40 PM,