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Revocation still doesn't work (imperialviolet.org)
8 points by moonboots on April 30, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Someone should set up a bet about what point in time more than 50% of MITM attempts with revoked (& Heartbleed-snarfed) certs will be caught by default configured browsers. "Never?"

This and lack of PFS are much bigger catastrophes than the OpenSSL debacle in itself.

(PFS: supported by TLS but disabled by almost everyone so all your old traffic is decryptable with heartbled cert).


Personally, I am for a hard fail OCSP option in HSTS or certificate plus OCSP stapling. Default to soft fail with a warning message for now. Remember captive portals can use OCSP stapling too.




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