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Research – Whitepaper – MD5 Considered Harmful Today

MD5 Considered Harmful Today – Creating A Rogue CA Certificate. The authors of this paper have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. As a proof of concept they executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows them to impersonate any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol.

 

You can download it from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/73494/md5-considered-harmful.pdf

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/73494/Whitepaper-MD5-Considered-Harmful-Today.html

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