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CAs for spies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Tue May 25 15:07:49 2004
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From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:01:23 -0400
Have you ever wondered what CA a spy agency would trust? In the case
of the Mossad, it's Thawte.
Go to http://www.mossad.gov.il/Mohr/MohrTopNav/MohrEnglish/MohrAboutUs/
and click "Contact Us" or "Application Form". You'll get an
SSL-protected connection, with a 1024-bit RSA key (with MD5) in a
certificate issued by Thawte. The connection itself used 256-bit AES.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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