{"id":2845,"date":"2012-02-08T22:34:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2012-09-14T23:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T04:44:25","slug":"critics-slam-ssl-authority-for-minting-certificate-for-impersonating-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/news\/2012\/02\/critics-slam-ssl-authority-for-minting-cert-used-to-impersonate-sites.ars\">Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past year, security experts have proposed a variety of alternatives to the complex web of trust now used to manage the net&#8217;s ailing SSL system. Among them is the <a href=\"http:\/\/convergence.io\/\">Convergence project<\/a> devised by researcher Moxie Marlinspike. The system, which would have flagged counterfeit certificates used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/09\/06\/diginotar_audit_damning_fail\/\">snoop on some 300,000 Gmail users<\/a>, has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/09\/30\/qualys_endorses_convergence\/\">won the qualified endorsement of security firm Qualys<\/a>. Google, meanwhile, has said it has no plans to implement Convergence in its Chrome browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites. Over the past year, security experts have proposed a variety of alternatives to the complex web of trust now used to manage the net&#8217;s ailing SSL system. Among them is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=2845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[420,101,232],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-certificates","tag-security","tag-ssl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}