1995-09-25 - Important consequence of existence of compromised Netscape certificates

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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <199509242121.RAA08234@frankenstein.piermont.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-25 01:25:28 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 18:25:28 PDT

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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 18:25:28 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Important consequence of existence of compromised Netscape certificates
In-Reply-To: <199509242121.RAA08234@frankenstein.piermont.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950924182101.12733D-100000@chivalry>
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There's one very important side-effect of the existence of a large number 
of compromised certificates accepted by navigator: the upgraded clients 
must either do CRL processing, or the roots used to sign all possibly 
compromised keys *must*  be rejected by the fixed navigator. 

Simon

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• 1995-09-23 (Sat, 23 Sep 95 13:05:49 PDT) - Re: “Going after Netscape” - shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
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    • 1995-09-25 (Sun, 24 Sep 95 18:25:28 PDT) - Important consequence of existence of compromised Netscape certificates - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>