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Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL

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Re: Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It comes with a list of the notaries and their public keys. So, the only concern is if your initial download is MitM'ed. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/notary_list.txt

Or the attacker could just block those servers and then spoof that file with new URLs and public keys.

Hard to spoof a file that you've already got a local copy of...

Re: Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the attacker could just block those servers and then spoof that file with new URLs and public keys.

Hard to spoof a file that you've already got a local copy of...

If you can't connect to the servers because the middleman blocked them, a user might assume that the servers were updated, and then proceed to use the spoofed file...
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