[Cryptography] Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?

[Ben Laurie]

On 18 May 2014 04:03, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2014-05-15 21:11, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> Sharing a public key over a public channel is meaningful only if you
>> have a way to authenticate that it came from who you think it came
>> from.
>
> What we need is a protocol for provably public assertions, where you
> can be sure you are seeing the same document as everyone else sees,
> and that the past cannot be rewritten.
>
> Is there a name for this class of protocol?

This is exactly what Certificate Transparency will do. I guess you
could call them transparency protocols.