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Old 7th February 2012
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Default Trustwave issued a man-in-the-middle certificate

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Certificate authority Trustwave issued a certificate to a company allowing it to issue valid certificates for any server. This enabled the company to listen in on encrypted traffic sent and received by its staff using services such as Google and Hotmail. Trustwave has since revoked the CA certificate and vowed to refrain from issuing such certificates in future.

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This is the first case that we are aware of where a respectable certificate authority has enabled third parties to issue arbitrary SSL server certificates for monitoring purposes. Trustwave claims, however, that this is common practice among other root CAs.
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Old 8th February 2012
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Default Mozilla considers removing Trustwave CA

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Scandalised by the snooping certificate issued by Trustwave, a heise Security reader, Sebastian Wiesinger, has submitted a report to Mozilla's bug database in which he requests that Trustwave's root certificates be removed from all Mozilla products. Mozilla's Kathleen Wilson, who handles the issue, has accepted the submission and requested a statement from Trustwave. Trustwave's Brian Trzupek has already announced the release of further information which, he says, is still waiting for internal approval.
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I believe it was Phil Zimmermann, father of PGP, who exclaimed widely and wisely that ...the second you involve a third party is the same second you lose the surety of privacy.

CAs are third parties. In a for profit monetized X509 space, certificate escrow and its variants is a quiet fact.

PGP never needed third parties, though in their day the key ring servers were considered administratively challenging -- a hurdle that likely would have been overcome had PGP gotten to the critical mass tipping point.

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