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22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid
(from Slashdot at 29-6-2010)
While SSL certs are widely used on the Internet today, a new study from Qualys, set to be officially released at Black Hat in July, is going to show some shocking statistics.



Among the findings in the study is that only 3% of SSL certs in use were actually properly configured.



Quoting: '"So we have about 22 million SSL servers with certificates that are completely invalid because they do not match the domain name on which they reside," Ivan Ristic, director of engineering at Qualys, said.... 
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Posted by John B. Frank Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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