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by thr0w3345 2208 days ago
But that would only allow them to sign new certs, CA’s don’t get the private keys only the public part to sign... Or did I misunderstand you?
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That's correct. To sniff traffic without replacing the certificate with one of their own they would need the the private key which was used in a session. (That key might have been derrived from the server private key, but again nothing the CA has access to.)