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Eddy Nigg  
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 More options Dec 23 2008, 6:36 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto
From: Eddy Nigg <eddy_n...@startcom.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:36:47 +0200
Local: Tues, Dec 23 2008 6:36 am
Subject: Suspend trust bit (was Unbelievable!)
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On 12/23/2008 09:09 AM, Kyle Hamilton:

> (I word it like that because in order for an attacker to succeed he
> would need to also hijack DNS, or place a entry in the user's hosts
> file.)

Or be a WiFi operator. This was the attack vector of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460374

> Of course, this would be an NSS change (the addition of a 'trust
> suspended' bit,

I think this to be an interesting idea and should be considered.

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