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MD5 Hack Interesting, But Not Threatening
Tim Callan, 2009-01-05

A few days ago at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, researchers presented a paper in which they had used an MD5 collision attack and substantial computing firepower to create a false SSL certificate using the RapidSSL brand of SSL certificate. In the intervening time we have seen a great deal of confusion and misinformation in the press and blogosphere about the specifics of this attack and what it means to the online ecosystem.

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Re: Re: Verisign were notified about this work prior to the presentation 2009-01-08
Anonymous
Sorry, I have to call shenanigans on the part of Verisign and company.

If you're a security company selling a product that makes the claims that Verisign does it is their responsibility to alert their customer base to any exposure, no matter how insignificant, and to give them various options to ...

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