SSL Security Broken

A group of researchers from Europe and U.S. have successfully implemented a theoretical attack that subverts the security of the HTTPS protocol. The hackers generated a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate that was trusted by all major browsers and could be used to impersonate any s... [ read more >> ]

Valid rogue CA certificate created

Diagram of man-in-the-middle attack using a rogue CA certificate

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Image credits: Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger

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Diagram of man-in-the-middle attack using a rogue CA certificate