Wednesday 31 December 2008

MD5 collision creates rogue Certificate Authority

(Translation: Bad news for the Internet).

At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) today, researchers will reveal how they utilized a collision attack against the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue certificate authority. This is pretty big news, so read on.

Source:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/30/md5-collision-creates-rogue-certificate-authority/

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