Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-11-22 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Especially the certlock Firefox extension they propose, which builds upon Kaie's Conspiracy, but does something more sophisticated. Unfortunately it seems it has not been made publicly available until now. Coming back on that old message to say I just saw it's

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-31 Thread Jan Schejbal
Especially the certlock Firefox extension they propose Certificate Patrol seems to do the same. -- Please avoid sending mails, use the group instead. If you really need to send me an e-mail, mention FROM NG in the subject line, otherwise my spam filter will delete your mail. Sorry for the

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-29 Thread Jean-Marc Desperrier
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote: Article on Wired here : http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/ The original article is well worth reading also : http://files.cloudprivacy.net/ssl-mitm.pdf Especially the certlock Firefox extension they propose, which builds upon Kaie's

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Djalaliev
The article is very wishy-washy about forged certificates. This usually means that either 1) a CA is willing/coaxed/forced to issue a certificate with CN=bankofamerica.com for a private key owned by the government of country Mallory or 2) Mallory has obtained the CA's certificate signing private

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Djalaliev
To prevent case 2, CAs are supposed to keep their certificates safe and revoke them if a suspicion arises that the key is not safe. Or rather, CAs are supposed to keep their private keys safe, not their certificates. -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Djalaliev
In the case of Netronome's SSL Inspector, if the device replaces bankofamerica.com's server certificate in the SSL handshake, the new certificate does _not_ have CN=bankofamerica.com. It is also not signed by a root CA. Hence, Alice should be fully aware of the man-in- the-middle and could

Re: A dedicated SSL MITM box on the market

2010-03-29 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 03/29/2010 10:41 PM, Peter Djalaliev: Matt Blaze seems to imply that this is already happening. I have not seen a confirmation of such a case. No such evidence exists. -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. XMPP:start...@startcom.org Blog:http://blog.startcom.org/