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A message from Comodo Hacker
- schrototo 16y agoIf that is indeed the guy, he certainly sounds like a massive douchebag.
- Volscio 16y agoUpdate with part of the decompiled TrustDLL code: http://pastebin.com/DBDqm6Km http://pastebin.com/DBDqm6Km
- cnkt 16y agoAfter "I'm not a group of hacker, I'm single hacker with experience of 1000 hackers, I'm single programmer experience of 1000 programmers," part, i stopped reading.
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- eggdude 16y agoMy favorite line: "easy for me, so hard for others"
- Xk 16y ago> At first I decided to hack RSA algorithm, I did too much investigation on SSL protocol, tried to find an algorithm for factoring integer, analyzed existing algorithms, for now I was not able to do so, at least not yet, but I know it's not impossible and I'll prove it Huh. He kind of lost all credibility at that point. Breaking RSA isn't something you just decide to do. I'll wait for the day when he announces he's broken it.
- mukyu 16y agoI highly doubt that he will be able to do so either. However, that does not reflect on whether or not he is the one that is behind the attack on Comodo, which has no real indications of being difficult. Comodo claims that it must have been an organized, planned out attack because they knew which domains to get certificates for. That does not explain why 3 were generated for one domain and one for 'global trustee'. Nor does it take a genius to figure out a set of domains you would want certificates for depending on what you are planning to do (in this case, it seems like attacking large webmail providers).
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- daeken 16y agoHasn't everyone woken up some day and said "hey, I'm gonna break RSA today"? I guess that only happens when you have the experience of 1000 hackers...
- smhinsey 16y agoYou'd think someone with the experience of 1,000 project managers would at least have said "this week." Just for some "uh oh" room...
- tptacek 16y agoOr the polynomials of 1,000 numeric field sieves.
- lucisferre 16y ago
- ahmad598_ 16y agoseems like the rages are beginning. end of US empire in the internet.
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- gabbo 16y agoAm I the only one to expect the guy who compromised a CA and generated a number of very high-value certs to use one of those certs to sign his message?
- mcorrientes 16y agoHe sounds like a douchebag because he thinks, he is awesome after hacking a CA. The most stuff is just lame, but I still appreciate the way how he infiltrated the system.
- nikcub 16y agoI crossed paths with the guys behind globaltrust.it years ago. I ended up auditing a code project they had written for a co. in the financial services industry that required good security, audit trails, client authentication etc. After the third remote exploit that I found, my recommendation was that they throw it out and start again, it was a huge jumble of PHP. This hurt their feelings, and a 6 month long argument ensued where they defended their competency. When I heard 'Italian certificate provider' last week, I thought it could be them, because they went on to launch a certificate project. I am more surprised that Comodo didn't do any due diligence on their resellers. All they had to do was to email my client to ask how their project went, and they would have found out about the clusterfuck.
- phlux 16y agoI LOVE the fact that I live in a world that I get to read some hackers manifesto online: My Rules as I rule to internet, you should know it already... Although, I do have to agree with his points about Echelon. EDIT: His command of the English language is irrelevant -- I stand by my comment above, which is the fact that we are even reading stuff like this makes the 16-year-old-cyberpunk-playing self from the '80s quite happy.
- thebooktocome 16y agoThat's some serious Miyamoto Musashi rhetoric there. The guy's either a grade A rationalist or a massive douchebag. I put odds at 5/95.
- kragen 16y agoCan you elaborate on the "grade A rationalist" remark? Does attempting to compensate for one's cognitive biases generally blind one to how one sounds to others?
- clueless 16y agoI think I kind of know, but for the uninitiated, can someone tell us what the potential practical consequences of this hack could have been?
- wmf 16y agoIf you combined these evil SSL certs with the right BGP hijack, you could read a lot of people's email and such. And since reading mail lets you reset passwords on everything else, he could have basically owned millions of people.
- kragen 16y agoBGP, or DNS, or your DSL modem or cable modem, or an open access point, or the router in an internet cafe, or...
- Volscio 16y agoI thought the most interesting part about this was that he claimed to be a 21yo Iranian who took sole credit, while having a problem with the lack of controversy surrounding the Stuxnet US/Israel project.
- jrockway 16y agoSo it takes the "skill of 1000 programmers" to write a program to send POST requests to an HTTP API? He must have been writing his client in Java...
- Confusion 16y agoI wonder whether that hyperbole of '1000 ...' is due to mistranslating some Iranian idiom. Not that it would make the assertion any better.
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- mak120 16y agoI come off with the feeling it is actually composed by an Iranian (possibly a team but could be an individual) who is clearly motivated to make "politically correct" (from the POV of the Iranian govt.) speeches. He goes to great lengths to praise his government, ambassador and president while denouncing all dissidents, separatists, Israel and the US. I cannot help feeling he/they have some connection with the government. Possibly the whole teenage cyberpunk rhetoric was deliberate (see repeated "hard for you easy for me" and "I was so fast" and the absurd "I will factor large integers") and little more than a poorly executed smoke screen to divert attention.
- dancavallaro11 16y agoOooh, my favorite part is on line 136, when he claims "RSA 2048 was not able to resist in front of me". That's a pretty, um, "interesting" characterization of the level of sophistication of his attack.
- gbrindisi 16y agoWell, it's finally arrived the time to rethink the whole CA system.