Can we copy trust?

[Peter Gutmann]

[Moderator's note: I'm letting just this one through, because I think
Peter's point bears repeating. --Perry]

"mheyman at gmail.com" <mheyman at gmail.com> writes:

>IT departments put corporate trusted CA certificates in employees computers.
>The US DoD puts their trusted root certificates in DoD computers. All these
>actions copy trust with high fidelity.

They don't copy any trust at all, they copy a (usually expensive)
cryptographic cookie that turns off browser warning messages.

(They do copy the cookies with high fidelity though, if one bit is corrupted
then the cookie becomes invalid).

Peter.

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