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Re: More US bank silliness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Sep 9 09:14:03 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: krahmer@suse.de, pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20080908070551.GA24538@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:49:55 +1200
Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de> writes:
>This reminds me the most weird SSL related error message I have ever seen and
>which is there since ages:
>
>https://www.fbi.gov
>
>Beside that the certificate is wrong :-)
That's an artefact of the SSL MITM that Akamai performs for sites that are
hosted via their service (and up until Kevin Fu pointed out that this was a
problem, any random site you want as well). You usually don't see this
though, so it's indicative of a configuration error somewhere...
Peter.
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