Survey highlights serious spoofability

One in seven digital certificates that stamp the authenticity of secure web sites use a vulnerable signature algorithm, according to a new survey. The shortcoming underlines the need to drop the insecure signing mechanism before its shortcomings are exploited in more convincing phishing attacks.…

Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/ssl_security_survey/

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