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> Maybe it's just me, but a company who stores their customer's private keys, sends them around in a ZIP file via email and has a trivial code injection vulnera
by BuildTheRobots 9y ago
> Maybe it's just me, but a company who stores their customer's private keys, sends them around in a ZIP file via email and has a trivial code injection vulnerability on their site, with a process running as root, is probably not the one I want to make that call.
On the flip side, if a company with such little regard for security thinks there's a problem with the Symantec, you've got to wonder. They're basically saying "we're dangerously incompetent, however even _we_ can see that Symantec are broken" - and might actually have a point.
- pfg 9y agoSymantec is already getting distrusted and the Web PKI community has decided on a plan that minimizes user impact while doing that. It's very doubtful that a company as incompetent as Trustico has the expertise to come up with a more well-informed decision or a better approach. Certainly attempting to get 50,000 certificates revoked immediately without doing any work to reissue those certificates prior to that is a terrible approach. Considering the fact that they recently switched to a new CA partner, a more likely explanation is that this was a misguided attempt to somehow keep their existing business rather than let DigiCert pick them up somehow. Obviously it failed in a spectacular fashion.