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Re: "Certification Authorities are recommended to stop using MD5 altogether"



* bgrpt3@toplitzer.net <bgrpt3@toplitzer.net> [2008-12-31 05:47-0500]:
> On Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2008, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/
> >
> > Could some skilled person comment on the article?
> >
> > I noticed around 20 certificates distributed with the package
> > ca-certificates have "Signature Algorithm: md5WithRSAEncryption".
> > Reason to worry?
> >
> 
> It is a problem. It's a reason to worry.
> But it is only one of many. 
> (They mentioned that in their presentation: It's a matter
> of trust :-) )
> Don't trust certificates too much.

Does anyone have a legitimate reason to trust any particular Certificate
Authority? 

micah

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