Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:09 MDT, Keith Medcalf said:
> The current system provides no more authentication or confidentiality
> than if everyone simply used self-signed certificates.

Not strictly true.  The current system at least gives you "you have reached
the hostname your browser tried to reach".  A self-signed cert doesn't
even give you that.

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