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Quote: SSL/TLS clients contain more than 100 trusted certificates; many are unknown, unsecure, moribund, or resold; subverting one subverts all; 3/4 of web server certificates are invalid

QuoteRef: gutmP2_2004 , p. 102



Topic:
key distribution

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in SSL/TLS, the client … contains more than 100 hard-coded certificate-authority certificates that … Many hard-coded CAs are completely unknown; they often … moribund, and in some cases, CA keys have … Subverting any one CA component compromises the entire … about three-quarters of all certificates in use by … [ref].   Google-1   Google-2

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