Full Disclosure: Re: VerySign Class 1 Authority - bogus SSL certificate?

[Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer () suse de>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Chris van der Pennen wrote:

Hi,

Depending on your trusted-CA package for your SSL client, this
should not verify. There are various ways to confuse SSL clients.
Especially GUI based web-browsers allow to play tricks where
you cant decide whether you are prompted a correct certificate.
Some do not check the signature at all. If in doubt, if there
is any popup on a HTTPS site, theres someone playing games.
I am going to release slides from a speach regarding that topic soon.
(in german unfortunally)

Sebastian

> 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?
>
> Chris
>
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