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EFF analyzes SSL certificates and certificate authorities

EFF analyzes SSL certificates and certificate authorities

Posted Aug 13, 2010 6:36 UTC (Fri) by Lunar^ (subscriber, #47323)
Parent article: EFF analyzes SSL certificates and certificate authorities

Monkeysphere [1] aims to provide support for using the OpenPGP trust-model instead of X509's to authenticate services and users. For HTTPS, there is already a Firefox extension working pretty well.

There was a talk about it a few days ago at DebConf10 already available on video [2].

[1] http://web.monkeysphere.info/
[2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/20...

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