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Re: [TLS] Eleven out of every ten SSL certs aren't valid

=JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com> Thu, 01 July 2010 02:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Eleven out of every ten SSL certs aren't valid
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Hi Peter,

 > the figure is very meaningful
 > because it supports the analysis of the effects of externalities on web site
 > security done by some guys at Microsoft Research a few months ago which
 > pointed out that since certificate warnings are close to one hundred percent
 > false positives (they were aware of no known cases in which someone had been
 > saved from being phished by a cert warning), the effect of a true positive is
 > rendered void.


Might you please post a link to the particular paper you're citing here (or 
authors & title at least)?

thanks,

=JeffH

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