[144531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Sep 13 10:47:19 2011
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:45:39 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com> said:
> He, I just want to self-sign my CERT's and remove the ugly warning that
> browsers shows.
SSL without some verification of the far end is useless, as a
man-in-the-middle attack can create self-signed certs just as easily.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
