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Re: the joy of "enhanced" certs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Kuethe)
Thu Jun 5 10:17:51 2008

Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:59:45 -0700
From: "Chris Kuethe" <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87ve0p6krz.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> An object lesson in this just fell in my lap -- I just got my first
> email from a spammer that links to a web site that uses such a cert,
> certified by a CA I've never heard of ("Starfield Technologies, Inc.")

starfield = godaddy.

see https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?app_hdr=&ci=12421 and
click on the fluffy little webtrust icons to get the reports.
https://cert.webtrust.org/ViewSeal?id=355

-- 
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

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