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Off-Path Attacks Against PKI

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Publication date15/10/2018
Host publicationCCS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages2213-2215
Number of pages3
ISBN (electronic)9781450356930
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The security of Internet-based applications fundamentally relies on the trustworthiness of Certificate Authorities (CAs). We practically demonstrate for the first time that even a very weak attacker, namely, an off-path attacker, can effectively subvert the trustworthiness of popular commercially used CAs. We demonstrate an attack against one popular CA which uses Domain Validation (DV) for authenticating domain ownership. The attack exploits DNS Cache Poisoning and tricks the CA into issuing fraudulent certificates for domains the attacker does not legitimately own -- namely certificates binding the attacker's public key to a victim domain.