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SSL is not enough any more

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Apparently, SSL for our website connections is not enough any more.

Guys from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC on wikipedia, here their rocket at the What the Hack 2005 I attended) managed to create a rogue certificate authority, using it to issue valid ssl ceritificates for every website they wanted.

So what they did actually? They found a way, using the CPU horsepower of 200 PS3s, to create a "man in the middle attack" tecnique using SSL certificates, breaking the SSL core.

Below a flow chart to better understand how everything could be used against you. :)

Written by orangeek

Wednesday 31 December 2008 at 5:43 PM

Posted in tech

ccc, certificate, chaoscomputerclub, hack, internet, security, ssl

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