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Message-ID: <200406021645.i52Gj9F9012756@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: VerySign Class 1 Authority - bogus SSL certificate? On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:39:31 +0930, Chris van der Pennen <chris@...gotdns.org> said: > I've been getting SSL certificates from various websites recently that are > apparently from a "VerySign Class 1 Authority" - note the 'y' in VerySign. > The certificate expired 6 December 2002. > The data in Issued To and Issued By are identical. > This smells very much like an SSL hijack attempt - can anyone shed some > light on the situation? Or some webserver package that builds a self-signed certificate so SSL works without having to pay Verisign, and does so in a "cute" manner that users are likely to accept the cert without thinking about it. It's probably NOT a hijack attempt unless you have *OTHER* evidence of that (phishy-looking redirect javascript on the page, etc....) Given how little *real* security a signed cert creates, it's probably not worth worrying about. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040602/9f452906/attachment.bin
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