A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul van Brouwershaven
Hi All, Yesterday I found a new false issued certificate for defence.external.int. It looks like the problems with Comodo are still not solved. Isn't it? The certificate below has been issued by Comodo just a few days ago on the domain external.int which hasn't been registered. I'm surprised

Autoconfig ISP fetch security review

2009-11-04 Thread Ben Bucksch
As requested during the review of autoconfig, I would like to pose the fetch ISP part of the feature for security review. I didn't know back then that I had to schedule the meeting myself, so I waited indefinitely for it to be scheduled. So, I now set the time to tomorrow, 2009-11-05, 10AM

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Reed Loden: On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:19:48 +0100 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Paul van Brouwershaven: Yesterday I found a new false issued certificate for defence.external.int. It looks like the problems with Comodo are still not solved. Isn't it? Why do you think the

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 11/04/2009 09:31 PM, Florian Weimer: Does the CPS really say that? Where? If you don't mind, the Mozilla CA Policy requires under section 7: /for a certificate to be used for SSL-enabled servers, the CA takes reasonable measures to verify that the entity submitting the

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul van Brouwershaven
Florian Weimer schreef: By the way, how did you obtain a copy of the certificate? They certificate owner wanted a same certificate from an other CA because this certificate has very limited browser compatibility. (read supprot for mobile devices etc) No other CA could deliver this certificate

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Ian G
On 04/11/2009 20:43, Paul van Brouwershaven wrote: Florian Weimer schreef: By the way, how did you obtain a copy of the certificate? They certificate owner wanted a same certificate from an other CA because this certificate has very limited browser compatibility. (read supprot for mobile

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul van Brouwershaven
Ian G schreef: OK, so it's good to figure out all the facts before we jump to conclusions. How do you mean? Why does the client want this certificate? What is the use case here? This client uses .int for an internal domain, but this does not changes the case. The certificate should not be

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Dave Miller
In article 4af1d712.2070...@startcom.org, Eddy Nigg eddy_n...@startcom.org wrote: I'm again not seeing the original posting, why doesn't it come through? I see only your replies. Something with the mail - news gateway is broken :S Giganews says the original message got nailed as a binary

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 11/04/2009 11:13 PM, Dave Miller: Giganews says the original message got nailed as a binary post because of the included base64-encoded SSL certificate. Specially on these news groups this can happen from time to time. Is this something which can be fixed? -- Regards Signer: Eddy

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Collin Jackson
I've found several certificate authorities that issue certificates for internal domains, including Comodo, VeriSign, and completessl.com. Adam Barth and I filed a bug on this issue in 2007. These certificates are easy to acquire, but I don't see how they're less secure than HTTP, so we've been

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Paul van Brouwershaven
Collin Jackson schreef: I've found several certificate authorities that issue certificates for internal domains, including Comodo, VeriSign, and completessl.com. Adam Barth and I filed a bug on this issue in 2007. These certificates are easy to acquire, but I don't see how they're less secure

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 11/04/2009 11:32 PM, Collin Jackson: I've found several certificate authorities that issue certificates for internal domains, including Comodo, VeriSign, and completessl.com. Adam Barth and I filed a bug on this issue in 2007. These certificates are easy to acquire, but I don't see how

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Collin Jackson
Do you know what web site the client used to register it originally? If you register a certificate with a . in it, Comodo's instantssl.com store usually sends a domain validation email (to ad...@external.int, administra...@external.int, etc.). In this case, I would think the email would never

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Dave Miller
In article kbednvccenx9c2zxnz2dnuvz_g1i4...@mozilla.org, Eddy Nigg eddy_n...@startcom.org wrote: On 11/04/2009 11:13 PM, Dave Miller: Giganews says the original message got nailed as a binary post because of the included base64-encoded SSL certificate. Specially on these news

Re: A new false issued certificate by Comdo?

2009-11-04 Thread Ben Bucksch
On 04.11.2009 20:31, Florian Weimer wrote: * Reed Loden: $ whois -h whois.iana.org external.int Domain external.int not found. SSL certificates shouldn't be issued to domains that don't exist. ;) Does the CPS really say that? Where? SSL certs should be issued only to the