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> Certificates which are perfectly good for communication and do not pose any significant security risk.

Is it so? I remember that in 2008 someone was able to create a rouge CA certificate because of the predictability of serial numbers[1]. It was a different time: we still used md5, but are you sure the limited entropy used to generate serial numbers does not pose any security risk?

[1]https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

parent y0ghur7_xxx 7 years ago

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