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Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide"
From: Chip Andrews <chip () sqlsecurity com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:26:08 -0400
Agreed but forcing phishers to generate key pairs, purchase certificates, and/or buy-off CA vendor personnel creates additional audit trails that could help in the tracking and prosecution of those individuals. Combine this with certificate revocation and you have at least a model that gives more verification, auditing, and remediation than currently exists in the pursuit of these criminals. It's at least a step in the right direction and shouldn't be avoided simply because it won't immediately stop all phishing attacks or protect all users.
Watermarks do not stop all counterfeiting. Holograms do not stop all credit card fraud. It doesn't mean we shouldn't do what we can to help - even if its only a partial solution.
Chip Andrews http://www.sqlsecurity.com
How does that help in practice? A user fooled by a link to ebay-support.com is just as likely to accept signed mail from foo () ebay-support com. Not to mention that the potential profits from phishing could easily finance the purchase of a forged cert if someone at one of the built-in CA's was corruptible. Given the several that are based in 3rd world companies (not to mention recent US corporate scandals) I have no confidence that won't eventually happen. -Dan Veditz
Current thread:
- New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Gunter Ollmann (NGS) (Sep 22)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Aleksandar Milivojevic (Sep 23)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Seth Arnold (Sep 24)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Aleksandar Milivojevic (Sep 27)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Greg A. Woods (Sep 27)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Crispin Cowan (Sep 28)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Seth Arnold (Sep 24)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Daniel Veditz (Sep 26)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Chip Andrews (Sep 27)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Philip Stoev (Sep 29)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Juraj Bednar (Sep 28)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Brian Dessent (Sep 28)
- Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Aleksandar Milivojevic (Sep 23)
- Re[2]: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Karsten Heidrich (Sep 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" Dehner, Benjamin T. (Sep 25)