On Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 5:50:40 PM UTC-6, Matthew Hardeman wrote:

> Route hijacking your way to what would appear as a proper domain validation 
> is practical for even a modestly resourceful adversary.  I suspect that the 
> only reason more spectacular demonstration of certs issuing pursuant to such 
> hijacks haven't arisen owes to ethical considerations, poor overlap of those 
> with the network interconnection experience and the CA DV practices 
> knowledge, and that doing it effectively means doing it in a well documented 
> way -- ringing a bell you can not unring.

So when I wrote the above, I had not yet seen this (just published):

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/941460537724080128

I have lots of ideas on how to help make DV more resilient against this, though 
they have various costs of complexity, infrastructure, and time.
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