Re: EV SSL cross-site attack

Interestingly the previous netcraft report was on the usage of EV certs 
in 2007. Now we have a report on how EV can be a back door to get xss in.

michael.mccormick@wellsfargo.com wrote:
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/02/27/extended_validation_certifi
> cates_and_xss_considered_harmful.html
> 
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:32:12 UTC