Early this week, I did a quick and dirty write-up trying to do a high level explanation of what is going on with DigiNotar and why it’s important. Since then there have been a lot of pieces that had dropped that are directly or indirectly related to the incident.
In Context
The ComodoGate hacker has ‘come forward’ claiming responsibility for the DigiNotar crack as well as claimed successful attacks on other Certificate Authorities (CA’s) including major world player GlobalSign.