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Re: Firefox 3.6 for Windows includes a forged CA cert
- To: Francis Litterio <flitterio@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Firefox 3.6 for Windows includes a forged CA cert
- From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:16:06 +0100
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:22:16PM +0000, Francis Litterio wrote:
> In Firefox 3.6 for Windows, go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Encryption
> ->
> View Certificates -> Authorities and scroll down to the entry for "Equifax
> Secure Inc." and you'll see a cert labeled "MD5 Collisions Inc
> (http://www.phreedom.org/md5)" grouped with the other Equifax certs.
>
> Yes, it's expired, so it poses no real threat, but why is the Mozilla Project
> shipping Firefox with that cert? It just causes FUD.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471715 is the associated mozilla
bug.
seems intentional.
Ciao, Marcus