On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.percya.com/2016/08/chinese-ca-wosign-faces-revocation.html > > One of the largest Chinese root certificate authority WoSign issued many > fake certificates due to an vulnerability. WoSign's free certificate > service allowed its users to get a certificate for the base domain if they > were able to prove control of a subdomain. This means that if you can > control a subdomain of a major website, say percy.github.io, you're able to > obtain a certificate by WoSign for github.io, taking control over the > entire domain.
And there is now strong circumstantial evidence that WoSign now owns - or at least, directly controls - StartCom: https://www.letsphish.org/?part=about There are mixed signals of incompetence and deliberate action here. Royce
