Re: I love PKI :) (was Some Propaganda.)

[ergosum <ergosum () neurosecurity com>]

> Just to make it clear - I don't think that enforcing the use of digital
> signatures on all executables is an effective way to *block* malicious
> code execution. That would never work in 100%, as there is always a
> possibility to find a bug (in a signed application) and exploit it, not
> to mention that anybody could buy a signature and sign his or her
> malicious code with it.

Not only the implementation might be flawed, but the algorithm itself can be 
flawed. Just remember the recent md5 collisions 
(http://www.stachliu.com/research_collisions.html) (which btw permited the 
creation of custom binaries with the same signature as the original non 
modified bin) or sha0 and sha1 (http://www.cryptography.com/cnews/hash.html) 
collisions.

Cheers


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