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RE: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:36:53 +0000
-----Original Message----- From: Gregory Edigarov [mailto:greg () bestnet kharkov ua] I.e. instead of a set of trusted CAs there will be one distributed net of servers, that act as a cert storage? I do not see how that could help... Well, I do not even see how can one trust any certificate that is issued by commercial organization.
There should be a government body to issue certificates then ;-) But Gregory is right, you cannot really trust anybody completely. Even the larger and more respectable commercial organisations will be unable to resist <insert intel organisation here> when they ask for dodgy certs so they can intercept something.. No, as soon as you have somebody who is not yourself in control without any third party verifiably independent oversight then you have to carefully define what you mean by trust. -- Leigh Porter ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
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- Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates) Christopher Morrow (Sep 11)
- Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates) Gregory Edigarov (Sep 12)
- Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates) Martin Millnert (Sep 12)
- RE: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates) Leigh Porter (Sep 12)
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- Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates) Ted Cooper (Sep 12)
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