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



it seems to me the fake certificates that a tool like ettercap iussues.

compare whith this (fake) verificate.

cheers
nicola del vacchio
security consultant 
genova italy
nicola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



Il mer, 2004-06-02 alle 18:45, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx ha scritto:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:39:31 +0930, Chris van der Pennen 
> <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> > 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?
> 
> Or some webserver package that builds a self-signed certificate so SSL works
> without having to pay Verisign, and does so in a "cute" manner that users are
> likely to accept the cert without thinking about it. It's probably NOT a 
> hijack
> attempt unless you have *OTHER* evidence of that (phishy-looking redirect
> javascript on the page, etc....)
> 
> Given how little *real* security a signed cert creates, it's probably not 
> worth
> worrying about.
> 

Attachment: fake-verisign-ca1.cer
Description: application/x509-ca-cert

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Questa parte del messaggio =?iso-8859-1?q?=E8?= firmata