[FM Discuss] DigiNotar Damage Disclosure

[Daniel James]

Hi Adam,

> Its not really much to
> do with documenting free software.

I wouldn't be so sure - we rely on encryption and certificates for a lot
of our work. Also, as the FM Foundation is officially Dutch, it's a
possibility that we might have been using a certificate issued by DigiNotar.

>> Thanks to an anonymous Farsi speaker, I now understand that the above
>> certificate is actually a comment to anyone who bothers to read
>> between the lines:
>> "RamzShekaneBozorg" is "great cracker"
>> "Hameyeh Ramzaro Mishkanam" translates to "I will crack all encryption"

Perhaps they could write a book on internet security for
http://fa.flossmanuals.net/ instead :-)

Cheers!

Daniel