Re: Firewall best practices

"Bruce B. Platt" <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:17:54 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <002d01cae6ff$1f320060$5d960120$@com>

lordchariot said in part:

>
>... but can you imagine
>if a nefarious CA got embedded into the browser?
>
>Meh, it actually probably wouldn't make much difference anyway. Users are
>just going to click OK anyway to bypass the warning...sigh.
>
...

Capture some packets when using IE when it finds a web site using a
certificate whose entire certification path is not included in the local
machine account's "Trusted Root Certification Authorities".  What happens is
both enlightening and frightening when this occurs with the wrong
certificate.

I chose not to elaborate on the consequences.  I share erik's "sigh".




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