Re: [cryptography] Another CA hacked, it seems.

2011-12-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote: Ralph Holz h...@net.in.tum.de writes: As I said, at this rate we shall have statistically meaningful large numbers of CA hacks by 2013: KPN is claiming there's nothing to worry about, please move along:

[cryptography] Another CA hacked, it seems.

2011-12-08 Thread Ralph Holz
As I said, at this rate we shall have statistically meaningful large numbers of CA hacks by 2013: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=autotl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8layout=2eotf=1u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebwereld.nl%2Fnieuws%2F108815%2Fweer-certificatenleverancier-overheid-gehackt.htmlact=url

Re: [cryptography] Another CA hacked, it seems.

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Back
Did they successfully hack the CA functionality or just a web site housing network design documents for various dutch government entities? From what survives google translate of the original dutch it appears to be the latter no? And if Kerckhoff's principle was followed what does it matter if

Re: [cryptography] Another CA hacked, it seems.

2011-12-08 Thread Ralph Holz
Hi, Did they successfully hack the CA functionality or just a web site housing network design documents for various dutch government entities? From what survives google translate of the original dutch it appears to be the latter no? Too early for a definite call. But there is also this

Re: [cryptography] Another CA hacked, it seems.

2011-12-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
Ralph Holz h...@net.in.tum.de writes: As I said, at this rate we shall have statistically meaningful large numbers of CA hacks by 2013: KPN is claiming there's nothing to worry about, please move along: