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MS Outlook digital sigs easily forged | |
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| Time: 07:11 EST/12:11 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Digital signatures can easily be forged and therefore can't be trusted in Outlook because of the same certificate chaining issue plaguing Internet Explorer, researcher Mike Benham says. Benham is responsible for discovering and publicizing the IE debacle, where SSL certs can be signed by an untrusted intermediary without warning to the end user, as we reported earlier. | ||
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| #1 By 7650 (128.113.147.230) at 9/3/2002 11:36:57 AM |
| Blah. If you're really worried about security, you'll just check the certificate anyways, and not wait for a stupid warning. Plus, it's not a problem limited to Outlook--a fact that the article seems to pass over fairly nonchalantly. |
| #2 By 1896 (216.78.253.30) at 9/3/2002 4:16:13 PM |
| #3 this is not a surprise, the article source is "The Register". |
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