31 December 2008 @ 17:36SSL cracked via MD5 weakness

A group of security researchers have successfully cracked SSL by using 200 PlayStation 3 consoles and about $700 worth of test certificates to create a rogue Certification Authority (CA). This is significant because at leat six CA’s are still using the MD5 encryption with the exploitable weakness. The solution to this problem is for the [...]
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