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Re: SSLeay.Org Still A Trusted Source?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon May 1 11:11:30 2000
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:23:08 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "Scot E. Wilcoxon" <scot@wilcoxon.org>
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"Scot E. Wilcoxon" wrote:
>
> As I was updating my security skills this week, I found that the
> ssleay.org domain has become lost. Someone registered it a few weeks ago
> and it now only contains banner ads and an ad for the domain company
> userfriendly.com (apparently no relationship to the humorous
> userfriendly.org, according to the latter's FAQ).
>
> Many security sites and documents still point to ssleay.org, so
> apparently its loss was not announced and expected in the security
> community. I don't know who was in charge of it after the SSLeay
> creators went to RSA Australia.
>
> As any transition between providers would have been brief and the site
> content should have reappeared quickly, it seems someone unknown to the
> security community has grabbed that domain. It would be nice if someone
> in the community who knows who the SSLeay.org webmaster was could
> confirm if the new owner has any known security credentials.
>
> There are quite a few security web sites that need to find out if their
> links need updating.
Anyone still pointing at SSLeay is 15 months behind the times.
Cheers,
Ben.
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