full-disclosure - MSN Passport Cert improperly issued

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Date: Sat Mar 18 04:09:27 2006
From: nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk (Nick FitzGerald)
Subject: MSN Passport Cert improperly issued

Babak Pasdar wrote:

> It seems that MSN's cert for private login to the passport site is
> issued for the wrong domain.  

So?

Given what that cert means even if it is "right" (i.e. diddly squat -- 
basically someone paid some money to a company that your browser 
recognizes as a CA), it tells you nothing really important, so why 
sweat it being "wrong"?

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald