Re:Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
by icebraining on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:58PM
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You can't "spoof" a cert, that's its whole point. If you create a new, it won't have a valid signature, and if you copy the original, you won't have the associated private key to create valid responses.
Re:Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
by austincheney on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @08:17PM
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/2897815/microsoft-blac...
To be more clear a malicious website can rely on fraudulently issued certificates to validate a spoofed domain. This is a bad cert that appears to be valid and establishes the same level of trust. That is why revocation lists and OCSP are necessary.
How would you do that? If you could do that you could also masquerade the HTTPS connection and simply run HTTPS at the spoofed server using the spoofed X.509 cert from the legitimate web server.