Wednesday 7 September 2011

Fraudulent Digital Certificates


some major borwsers have issued a relased because DIGINOTAR the former Certificate Authority whihc managed to issue more than 500 bogus digital certificates in the name of majore web service providers mainly

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even in the name of some intelligence agencies.

In recent update from MoZilla Firefox it have blocked any certificate signed by DigitNotar.

Microsoft have also released an update 2607712 permanently moving all five DigiNotar's root certificates to the Certificate Revokation List whihc provides protection to all Windows versions.



DigiNotar Root CA

DigiNotar Root CA G2
DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA Overheid
DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA Organisatie - G2
DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA Overheid en Bedrijven

1 comment:

  1. I am surprised to know about fraudulent digital certificates. Is there any way using which one can check if the certificate is genuine or not ?
    digital certificates

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