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> Fundamentally, if you control a domain you can get a CA-signed certificate for any label under it. It's worse than that. All an attacker needs to do is pass
by ynik 11y ago
> Fundamentally, if you control a domain you can get a CA-signed certificate for any label under it.
It's worse than that. All an attacker needs to do is passively monitor the target domain's emails, and he can get a valid CA-signed certificate. If the attacker can only monitor some networks, not all globally: no problem, since the attacker gets to choose which CA the email gets sent from!