[Cryptography] hard to trust all those root CAs

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Tue Jul 22 19:59:10 EDT 2014


Jerry Leichter writes:
 > On Jul 19, 2014, at 5:03 PM, John Denker <jsd at av8n.com> wrote:
 > > SSL "packet inspection" is an article of commerce.  The fact that
 > > this is even remotely possible tells me that SSL fails to provide
 > > the thing I most want it to provide.
 > >  https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ssl+packet+inspection%22
 > This is an "it depends" situation.

Crypto without a threat model is like cookies without milk. Keep
saying it until it becomes second nature to specify the threat model.

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