Last week Bruce Schneier published An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers and now Ian Carroll has published Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority.
Ian is best known for the death of the EV (Extended Validation) certificates. He legally registered a colliding entity name and then got an EV certificate for his site stripe.ian.sh. As this site is not online any more, a good write up of this is Extended Validation Certificates are (Really, Really) Dead by Troy Hunt.
Troy Hunt is also known for his website ';--have i been pwned?.
Schneier suggests that it might be time to disable / remove trust for the following Certificate Authorities (CAs):
Cory Doctorow gives a very good explanation the the problem in general and its causes here. Basically, we are just too trusting and we believe that others are looking after our interests. It appears that they are not.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday December 03 2022, @01:54AM
The cert is "free" and it gets rid of that "scary red line through the lock". It's not like I'm collecting data, but most people don't have a clue about the technology they use daily. A couple of decades ago I was visiting my sister, and her then four year old grandson asked how computers work. She said "It's magic."
"Shades of Clarke," I thought.
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