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Friday, March 25, 2011

Blindly trusting random SSL Certificate Authorities

More customizable and better certificate validation is needed. I would rather trust an expired self-signed certificate that I've seen before than a brand new CA-signed cert.

Detecting Certificate Authority compromises and web browser collusion | The Tor Blog

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/life-without-ca
Posted by Costin at 9:05 AM No comments:

New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates | Electronic Frontier Foundation

New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake SSL Certificates | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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