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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 22:01:47 -0400
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:37 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
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.
really? even in the face of CA's that have signed certs for existing domains (to not the domain owners)? If I have a thawte cert for valdis.com on host A and one from comodo on host B... which is the right one?
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- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases, (continued)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases Christopher Morrow (Sep 14)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases Joe Greco (Sep 12)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates lgomes00 (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Mark Andrews (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Jimmy Hess (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Damian Menscher (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Christopher Morrow (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Christopher Morrow (Sep 11)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 12)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Christopher Morrow (Sep 12)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Robert Bonomi (Sep 12)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Christopher Morrow (Sep 12)
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- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Eliot Lear (Sep 12)
- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Jason Duerstock (Sep 12)
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- Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates Eliot Lear (Sep 12)