What if a compelled CA scenario gets combined with Tor (The Onion Router)?

2010-05-19 Thread Kai Engert
Today I read some technical documents at http://www.torproject.org which is a project that tries to enhance anonymity of Internet users, or allow Internet users to circumvent censorship. With Tor, your outgoing connections will be routed (using encryption) to a chain of random Tor servers,

Re: What if a compelled CA scenario gets combined with Tor (The Onion Router)?

2010-05-19 Thread Nelson Bolyard
Kai To perform a successful MITM attack on a connection between a victim client and a victim server, the attacker must have two things: 1) one or more certificates that bear a public key whose corresponding private key is known to the attacker, and which certificates will be accepted by the