Eddy Nigg wrote, On 2009-01-03 13:38:
> On 01/03/2009 11:33 PM, Nelson B Bolyard:
>>> Additionally all steps of the subscribers are always logged (yes, every
>>> click of it) and we have records about every validation and about which
>>> email address was used for it, failed attempts etc. With those records
>>> could we re-validate all certificates very quickly.
>
>> Do your records include the email addresses that were actually used by
>> your servers in the course of validation?
> 
> Yes. That was also the reason why we could pinpoint the attempt as 
> fraudulent within almost seconds...as such, we wouldn't prevent Verisign 
> from getting a cert from us and/or test our systems if the request is 
> legitimate.
> 
>> Can you search those records to see if any other certs were ever issued
>> after using an email address that was "a different email address than the
>> validations wizard actually provided" ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I think a check of that magnitude is an appropriate response to this event.
> 
> This is exactly what we did.

That's good to read, Eddy.  I had not understood that from your previous
messages on this subject.  Thank you for clearing that up for me.

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