Possibly of interest in blocking keys is Matt Palmer's great work in this
space: https://pwnedkeys.com/

Mike


On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 10:32 AM 'Tim Hollebeek' via
[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Hanno for bringing this to our attention.  It turns out one of
> our sales engineers used this key pair to issue a certificate during a
> demonstration. Since it wasn't in the blocklist, it issued.
>
> We have about 1.5M key pairs in our blocklist, but there are a lot of
> places to look for key pairs, and we hadn't searched OpenSSL for them. We
> did that today in response to your discovery.
>
> As an aside, I'd like to encourage people to use the RFC 9500 test keys,
> where feasible, instead of generating new ones. This makes it much easier
> to block test keys in a more comprehensive way.
>
> We have added the OpenSSL private keys that were not already present on
> our key blocklist.  For CAs who track external blocked keys, here is a list
> of OpenSSL private keys:
>
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/master/test/certs.
>
> For general awareness, we also maintain a page where compromised private
> keys may be reported:
> https://problemreport.digicert.com/.
>
> -Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> On
> > Behalf Of Hanno Böck
> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 10:49 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Certificate with compromised key / *.digicert-demo.com
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I discovered a certificate with a compromised key. While this would
> usually be
> > an uninteresting event, I think this one is a bit more unusual.
> >
> > This certificate
> > https://crt.sh/?id=15456747789
> > issued by Digicert for *.digicert-demo.com uses this key (a test key
> from
> > OpenSSL's source code):
> > https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/test/certs/leaf.key
> >
> > As this is a hostname that is owned by the CA itself, it makes me wonder
> how
> > this happened.
> >
> > The certificate was revoked quickly after I reported it to Digicert.
> >
> > --
> > Hanno Böck - Independent security researcher https://itsec.hboeck.de/
> > https://badkeys.info/
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