UAE Capability - breaking SSL?

Posted Sep 13, 2010 9:00 UTC (Mon) by ummmwhat (guest, #54087)
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

"Other Western companies handed the country a far greater power: the capability to infiltrate the secure system used by most banking, mail, and financing sites"

They mean breaking the SSL encryption used by these websites?

UAE Capability - breaking SSL?

Posted Sep 13, 2010 16:39 UTC (Mon) by dark (guest, #8483) [Link] (2 responses)

No, just giving them a master key.

UAE Capability - breaking SSL?

Posted Sep 15, 2010 13:38 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Worse: letting them *issue* a master key.

UAE Capability - breaking SSL?

Posted Sep 16, 2010 7:53 UTC (Thu) by ummmwhat (guest, #54087) [Link]

This is scary ..