Re: Stealing certificates

From: Adrian McCullagh <Adrian.McCullagh(at)freehills.com>
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 20:16:23 EST

Rygg,

I am confused by your request for informatiom.

Firstly, the private key is not stored in a certificate only the public key is embodied in a certificate.

Secondly, it does not matter that someone can so called "steal" a certificate. The certificate is meant to be copied and exposed to as many organisations as possible.

The issue of inserting a fake certificate is very problematical and easy to achieve. Especially as the procedure of inserting Certificates has been published by MS.

Dr. Adrian McCullagh Ph. D.
Solicitor
Freehills

Direct 61 7 3258 6603
Telephone 61 7 3258 6666
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http://www.freehills.com

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Received on Fri Nov 22 22:59:33 2002