CFP: PKI research workshop

[Ben Laurie]

Eric Rescorla wrote:
> 
> Ben Laurie <ben at algroup.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Michael Sierchio wrote:
> > >
> > > Carl Ellison wrote:
> > >
> > > > If that's not good enough for you, go to https://store.palm.com/
> > > > where you have an SSL secured page.  SSL prevents a man in the middle
> > > > attack, right?  This means your credit card info goes to Palm
> > > > Computing, right?  Check the certificate.
> > >
> > > To be fair,  most commercial CA's require evidence of "right to use"
> > > a FQDN in an SSL server cert.  But your point is apt.
> >
> > And most (all?) commercial CAs then disclaim any responsibility for
> > having actually checked that right correctly...
> While this is true, I'd point out that all the security software
> you're using disclaims any responsibility for not having gaping
> security holes.

I have the source to all the security software I'm using... in fact, I
wrote quite a lot of it :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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