[SSL Observatory] Fuzzing TLS certificate validation implementations

Seth David Schoen schoen at eff.org
Thu Apr 3 18:35:31 PDT 2014


This new paper compares the behavior of several different TLS client
implementations in accepting or rejecting server authentication
certificates:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak14.pdf

Discrepancies in different implementations' decisions often pointed
to bugs!

I've written to ask if we can get their code or if they'd like to run
a similar test using data from the Observatory.

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