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Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:57:59 -0400

somewhat rhetorically...

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Damian Menscher <damian () google com> wrote:

Because of that lost trust, any cross-signed cert would likely be revoked by
the browsers.  It would also make the browser vendors question whether the
signing CA is worthy of their trust.

given a list of ca's and certs to invalidate ... how large a list
would be practical in a browser? (baked in I mean)
  (not very, relative to the size of the domain system today)
Is this scalable?
  (no)
Is this the only answer we have left?
  (no)

-chris
(I'm not sure what better answers there are to the situation we are in
today, I do like the work in DANE-WG though... it'll be a while before
it's practical to use though, I fear)


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