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

Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com> Wed, 30 June 2010 07:50 UTC

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From: Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Bruno Harbulot
<Bruno.Harbulot@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> ...
> (I'm still not fully convinced of the benefits of EV,
> though.)

There's an advantage or two:

- Phishing sites are unlikely to have them
- They work as a defence against phishing & MITM attacks that use
homograph attacks or non-Lating domain names (e.g., paypal.com written
in Russian as raural.com, or something).

-- 
Ivan Ristic
ModSecurity Handbook [http://www.modsecurityhandbook.com]
SSL Labs [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/]

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