Re: Certificate spoofing issue with Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari 2

2007-11-20 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Mark Senior wrote: If I subsequently visit my bank's website, and I get no SSL warning, it should ing well mean the certificate is valid. However, vendors seem to head towards strong hostname binding. MSIE, Opera and Safari 3 already do so. Mozilla-1.9/Firefox-3 will

Re: Certificate spoofing issue with Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari 2

2007-11-19 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Nils Toedtmann wrote: Mozilla based browsers (Firefox, Netscape, ...), Konqueror and Safari 2 do not bind a user-approved webserver certificate to the originating domain name. This makes the user vulnerable to certificate spoofing by subjectAltName:dNSName extensions. ...