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

"Blumenthal, Uri - 0668 - MITLL" <uri@ll.mit.edu> Tue, 29 June 2010 14:48 UTC

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From: "Blumenthal, Uri - 0668 - MITLL" <uri@ll.mit.edu>
To: Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>, Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:48:24 -0400
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On 6/29/10 10:36 , "Tim Dierks" <tim@dierks.org> wrote:
>  On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you're referring to my work, I didn't make any assumptions.
>> I merely reported the findings, which are that  about 3.17% of domain
>> names that respond with SSL on port 443 have a potentially valid
>> certificate.
>
> In my opinion, this is a pretty meaningless statistic.

I concur.
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Uri         uri@ll.mit.edu
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