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Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet
From: John Payne <john () sackheads org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:31:56 -0500
On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Jared Mauch:Within the next 2 major software releases (Microsoft OS) they'regoing to by default require signed binaries. This will be the only viablesolution to the malware threat. Other operating systems may follow. (This was a WAG, based on gut feeling).The code signing CAs have never been subject to serious attack. It'sunlikely that they are sufficiently robust for this scheme to work on alarge scale.
One would hope that the CA's wouldn't be connected to an attack path... The revocation stuff should be distributable if it's not already.
Current thread:
- Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Sean Donelan (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Jared Mauch (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet John Musbach (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Roland Dobbins (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Joel Jaeggli (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Florian Weimer (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet John Payne (Nov 27)
- RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Fred Reimer (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Jared Mauch (Nov 27)
- RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Fred Reimer (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet John Musbach (Nov 27)
- RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Fred Reimer (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Jared Mauch (Nov 27)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet Sean Donelan (Nov 27)
- RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet michael.dillon (Nov 28)
- [no subject] Michael Balasko (Nov 28)
- Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet John Musbach (Nov 27)