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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Mt Gox Break In Part 2
by
mrb
on 13/09/2011, 07:41:22 UTC
Forging a SSL cert only enables the possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack from being transparently obvious when it's no longer signed properly.  However, you still have to accept the change in certificate for the forged-SSL MIM attack to work.  Did you log in to MtGox from strange internet connections in shady places?  Or did MtGox get their DNS forged as well?

No, a forged cert from DigiNotar would allow to transparently execute a MiTM attack against an end-user, without her seeing any security warning whatsoever. Except in 1 scenario, see below...

Quote from: kjj
Is there actually a browser that will remember a certificate and complain if that cert is replaced with a different valid CA-signed cert?

...only 1 browser would warn you: Chrome, because Google hard-coded hashes of the public keys for a small number of high-profile websites certificates keys. This is called public key pinning.