CAs for spies?

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri May 28 00:57:15 EDT 2004


Steve Bellovin <smb at research.att.com> writes:

>Have you ever wondered what CA a spy agency would trust?  In the case of the
>Mossad, it's Thawte.

Minor nitpick: That should really be phrased as "Have you ever wondered what
CA a spy agency would select to make the browser warning dialogs go away?".

Peter.

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