Breaking the Security Myths of Extended Validation SSL Certificates - PDF
A PDF article covering:
Introduction
- SSL certificate authorities have been thoroughly broken in the last year or two
- EV-SSL is often seen as a stronger assurance of site security
- If SSL is broken, can we trust EV-SSL?
- No! A rogue non-EV certificate can be used to do MITM attacks against EV sites
Organization
- State of the SSL PKI
- EV to the rescue
- Breaking EV certificates
- mixed content attacks
- same origin attacks
- SSL rebinding
- cache poisoning
- Fixing this mess
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