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Sovereign Keys for certificate verificationSovereign Keys for certificate verificationPosted Dec 30, 2011 17:15 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: Sovereign Keys for certificate verification by Lennie Parent article: Sovereign Keys for certificate verification
A fairly small change in the browser, but older browsers can't connect to it and use the current CA system as a fallback or similair. Not having backwardcompatibility is like the network effect reversed. Here is where the browsers policy of rapid release auto updates could help by getting the code out there and widely deployed quickly so that maybe in a year 99% of the clients are compatible and you can move forward.
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Sovereign Keys for certificate verification Posted Dec 30, 2011 21:02 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
"Here is where the browsers policy of rapid release auto updates could help by getting the code out there and widely deployed quickly so that maybe in a year 99% of the clients are compatible and you can move forward."
That will not happen, not even in 3 years. I've been building "webapplications" (among other things) for over 10 years.
Certain companies have only recently upgraded from IE6 to IE7.
Sovereign Keys for certificate verification Posted Dec 31, 2011 3:50 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
It's already happening. MS has already stated that they are making IE an auto-update item so I expect IE6 usage to drop precipitiously. IE6 is kind of a special, historical, case. New browsers have switched or will switch to an auto update system so that old versions won't hang around long.
Sovereign Keys for certificate verification Posted Dec 31, 2011 15:17 UTC (Sat) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]
1. I mentioned 3 years, because of atleast IE6, IE7, IE8 to be banned from the public Internet. Probably (a lot ?) more.
2. Microsoft not only added auto update, they also added a really easy switch to turn it off at businesses. It isn't the home users which are the IE6 problem.
Sovereign Keys for certificate verification Posted Jan 4, 2012 5:50 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Actually its better than I thought, IE6 usage in the US and much of Europe has fallen below 1%, the only thing propping up the total numbers is the vast number of pirated WinXP in China that doesn't get updates.
http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2012/01/03/the...
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