[Cryptography] So please tell me. Why is my solution wrong?

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Thu Feb 9 16:55:54 EST 2017


> After your browser verifies the digital signature on a TLS certificate it creates
> fig 1 with the picture from your local hard drive and Bob, Trent etc. from the
> TLS certificate. Hence phishers can only get an incorrect/fake name for Bob
> by tricking a Certificate Authority (CA), or hacking a CA. Once people are
> using fig 1 as a dedicated login screen it's up to the CA to ensure correct
> business names are inside TLS certificates.

Peter has posted a set of links as to why images don't work. 

Do you know how CA's work, and about domain validation?  Apparently not.  There need not be a business name, just a domain name.  A valid domain name.  

This scheme doesn't work.  Full stop.


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