Saturday, May 17, 2014

Forged SSL Certificates Existing on the Internet

About 0.2% of all SSL certificates are forged. This is the first time I've ever seen a number based on real data. News article:
Of 3.45 million real-world connections made to Facebook servers using the transport layer security (TLS) or secure sockets layer protocols, 6,845, or about 0.2 percent of them, were established using forged certificates.
Actual paper.

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