A mighty fortress is our PKI

[Sampo Syreeni]

On 2010-07-26, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>> I agree. But do we then have any quantitative research on how bad 
>> this sort of sharing really is, in excess of the basic cryptographic 
>> vulnerability?
>
> I am not sure what quantitative measurement of vulnerability would 
> even mean. What units would said quantity be measured in?

I'm not sure either. This is just a gut feeling. But *certainly* sharing 
as such can be quantified somehow, and numbers could be derived about 
the social network where sharing takes place. Then *certainly* the 
results can be correlated with their effect upon, say, average numbers 
of breaks/leaks/bad-stuff, over whatever statistical horizon we might 
have with those.

Quite a lot of stuff can be quantified, even if the relevant 
distributions prove rather spread out.
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