[Cryptography] MITM company acquires MITM tools

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Nov 1 00:18:43 EDT 2017


This came up on another list, the Comodo CA and all of the roots it controls
(which include a pile of other CAs unrelated to Comodo that it's bought up
over the years) was recently acquired by Francisco Partners:

http://www.eweek.com/security/francisco-partners-acquires-comodo-s-certificate-authority-business

who also have a stake in SonicWall, "the leader in Deep Packet Inspection
(DPI) and we've got a lot going on in that space", Procera (same), and
formerly had a stake in Blue Coat, whose products have been used by repressive
regimes against their citizens.

It's amusing that a perfect mechanism for performing MITM attacks is now
controlled by a company who has other arms that actively perform MITM attacks.

Peter.


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