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Post 302531773 by KenJackson on Friday 17th of June 2011 09:37:44 PM
06-17-2011
You have a smiley there, and you're almost quoting one of those articles, but I hope you're not saying that tongue in cheek. There's some wisdom in your words. If bitcoins had no value, why would someone go to the effort of targeting them?
In fact, if I had thought it through, I should have been suspicious of them if no one was bothering to try to steal them. And, hey, no security is perfect, so there will be some thefts. The victim was storing them on Windows, for crying out loud!
Also, the possibility that someone had half a million dollars in bitcoins says an awful lot.
In fact, I'm starting to get more interested.
As for security there's almost a separate, more general, issue here. The second story you referenced said this:
There are two very instructive things in that sentence about security in general:The lessons, if not obvious, are
In fact, if I had thought it through, I should have been suspicious of them if no one was bothering to try to steal them. And, hey, no security is perfect, so there will be some thefts. The victim was storing them on Windows, for crying out loud!
Also, the possibility that someone had half a million dollars in bitcoins says an awful lot.
In fact, I'm starting to get more interested.
As for security there's almost a separate, more general, issue here. The second story you referenced said this:
Quote:
The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit, is fairly simple: it targets Windows machines and zeroes in on the standard file location for a Bitcoin wallet.
- It targets Windows machines, and
- It looks for people doing things the standard way.
- Don't use Windows (especially to protect your savings), and
- Don't accept defaults or do things in predictable, standard ways.
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ssl_get_peer_cert_chain
SSL_get_peer_cert_chain(3) OpenSSL SSL_get_peer_cert_chain(3) NAME
SSL_get_peer_cert_chain - get the X509 certificate chain of the peer SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/ssl.h> STACKOF(X509) *SSL_get_peer_cert_chain(SSL *ssl); DESCRIPTION
SSL_get_peer_cert_chain() returns a pointer to STACKOF(X509) certificates forming the certificate chain of the peer. If called on the client side, the stack also contains the peer's certificate; if called on the server side, the peer's certificate must be obtained sepa- rately using SSL_get_peer_certificate(3). If the peer did not present a certificate, NULL is returned. NOTES
The peer certificate chain is not necessarily available after reusing a session, in which case a NULL pointer is returned. The reference count of the STACKOF(X509) object is not incremented. If the corresponding session is freed, the pointer must not be used any longer. RETURN VALUES
The following return values can occur: NULL No certificate was presented by the peer or no connection was established or the certificate chain is no longer available when a ses- sion is reused. Pointer to a STACKOF(X509) The return value points to the certificate chain presented by the peer. SEE ALSO
ssl(3), SSL_get_peer_certificate(3) 0.9.7a 2001-02-15 SSL_get_peer_cert_chain(3)