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Re: [therightkey] Barely-capable CAs

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 01 November 2012 18:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [therightkey] Barely-capable CAs
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On 11/01/2012 05:22 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> Having worked in Web security over 20 years now, I have still to see a case
> where a system was breached because of a really subtle design flaw. 

Bleichenbacher?

S.

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