Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante...
by Tepix on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:06PM
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Haven't they been hacked more than once?
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Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante...
by agwa on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:26PM
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One of Comodo's registration authorities was breached, but not Comodo themselves. Comodo were able to detect the breach and cut off the compromised RA because they were monitoring what their RAs were doing. Symantec, on the other hand, didn't know that their RAs were mis-validating certificates until I noticed and told them.
(Registration authorities are third parties that perform certificate validation on behalf of the CA. I think Comodo bears some responsibility for delegating validation to an RA that was compromised, but Symantec's conduct has been so much worse in comparison.)
Re:Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symante...
by throwaway1992 on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:50AM
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It wasn't one but three authorities which have been breached.
And maybe you should disclose that you are a Comodo reseller.