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Someone on HN knows this subject much better than I do, but as I understand it, there's no attack in the literature that takes a good certificate request and $2MM as an input and spits out a validating certificate as an output.

This is different than the situation with MD5, where the components needed for a successful attack were known to the literature, and the real work was (a) scaling the attack so that it could perform within the time windows needed to forge a TLS certificate and (b) putting all the pieces together.

(But see upthread with 'pbsd, who is one of those people on HN who knows the subject much better than me).




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