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Comodo Hack May Reshape Browser Security

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-it-right-this-time dept.

suraj.sun writes "Major browser makers are beginning to revisit how they handle Web authentication after last month's breach that allowed a hacker to impersonate sites including Google, Yahoo, and Skype. Currently, everyone from the Tunisian government to a wireless carrier in the United Arab Emirates that implanted spyware on customers' BlackBerry devices and scores of German colleges are trusted to issue digital certificates for the largest and most popular sites on the Internet."

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  1. Implement DNSSEC and DNS based SSL keys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With DNSSEC and DNS based SSL keys, only the single trust chain from the root to the domain can sign the keys.