Bugtraq: Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL from Internet Explorer

[der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>]

> > Depends.  Does it include the tools necessary to sign my own code?
> > If so, what's to stop a malware creator from using those same tools
> > to sign the attack vector?
> How does the malware author get the private half of a public key you
> trust for software installations?
The same way you do, of course.  Most likely it pops up a box asking
for it.  Given how boneheaded most users seem to be, and given that
signatures will be needed on most software installs, this will be a
common sight to many users, and they will probably cheerfully type in
whatever is necessary to fetch/decrypt it.  Look at how effective
phishing attacks are.

No, that wouldn't work against me (or, I would hope, you).  But I
wouldn't be running such a thing anyway, and even if I were-- having to
type a passphrase every time I recompiled something would be
intolerable, and if it were automated, malware could automate the
signing just as well as my compiler front-end could.

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