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I wonder why their showcase features a picture of a DigiNotar certificate [1]. Could it be that DigiNotar was in the news recently? From WikiPedia: "On July 10
by Luyt 15y ago
I wonder why their showcase features a picture of a DigiNotar certificate [1]. Could it be that DigiNotar was in the news recently?
From WikiPedia: "On July 10, 2011, a certificate was issued by DigiNotar's systems for Google by an attacker with access to their systems. This certificate was subsequently used by unknown persons in Iran to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack against Google services. On August 28, 2011, certificate problems were observed on multiple Internet service providers in Iran. The fraudulent certificate was posted on pastebin."
..and that was only the start of a whole chain of events...
DigiNotar went bankrupt a few days ago [3].
[1] http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/certificate-viewer.png.en http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/cert...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diginotar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diginotar
[3] http://www.diginotar.nl/ http://www.diginotar.nl/
- bkor 15y agoThe screenshot was made when DigiNotar wasn't yet bankcrupt. The reason for using DigiNotar is because of two things: 1) my sense of humour 2) makes it really clear why you might want a certificate viewer. Ok, maybe a 3rd one: Dutch government initially saying they could still be trusted for some certificates. It is not the only screenshot with my sense of humour though