Re: [therightkey] Barely-capable CAs

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Fri, 02 November 2012 19:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [therightkey] Barely-capable CAs
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Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Debian OpenSSL CPRNG goof?

-Martin