Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5 flaw.

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 17:53:55 +0100
"Terje Bless" <link () pobox com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > Hmm... so basically all deployed FireFox and IE either don't even
> > try to do a CRL, or they ask the dodgy certificate "Who can I ask
> > if you're dodgy?"
>
> Hmm. Don't the shipped-with-the-browser trusted root certificates
> include a CRL URL?
Every CA runs its own CRL server -- it has to be that way.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb