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Message-ID: <16425.43494.115106.208426@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:04:54 +0000
From: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@...gin.net>
To: der Mouse <mouse@...ents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Cc: Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL from Internet Explorer



der Mouse wrote:

> > Signed applications and signed DLLs and signed drivers [...] coming
> > to a Unix near you SOONER rather than later.
> 
> > Or is that the kind of thing you disable upon installation because it
> > gets in the way of you being able to install whatever "you" want ?
> 
> Depends.  Does it include the tools necessary to sign my own code?
> 
> If not, yes, I will disable it, to the point of running a different OS
> if necessary.
> 
> If so, what's to stop a malware creator from using those same tools to
> sign the attack vector?

You don't have to store the signing key on every host which needs to
run the signed binaries.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@...gin.net>


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