On 1/12/11 15:10 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
ianG<i...@iang.org>  writes:

Is this in anyway a cause for action in contract?  Is this a caused for
revocation?
And given that you have to ask the MITM for the revocation information, how
would you revoke such a cert?

Wait! Mallory has delivered Alice a valid CA-signed-sub-CA-signed cert. That is the valid information, right? There was nothing wrong the cert that wasn't seen, it is the new one that is at fault.

Or, am I missing something?
And that was "Why blacklists suck for validity checks, reason #872 in a series
of 10,000 or so".  Returning you now to Max Geldray and Orchestra...


Gnash.... 3rd time lucky ... the list reply behaviour has changed......

iang
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