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SSL flaws revealed at Black Hat

SSL flaws revealed at Black Hat

Posted Aug 6, 2009 16:48 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
Parent article: SSL flaws revealed at Black Hat

More evidence that the "certificate authority" idea is a bad one to begin with.


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SSL flaws revealed at Black Hat

Posted Aug 13, 2009 22:59 UTC (Thu) by obi (guest, #5784) [Link]

I agree, the whole thing seems very brittle. I'd rather see individuals make up their own mind about who to trust, than hope no catastrophic failure happens with the CAs. Well, transitive trust is tricky, and it difficult to create an easily understood UI. But the current CA dialogs aren't easily understood either.

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