[Cryptography] Verisimilitrust

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

SIGH.

The WebPKI was designed for the purpose of allowing people to buy
stuff from online stores with at least the same degree of security as
through traditional mail order or in traditional stores. That is all
it was ever designed to do. If you are upset that it is not proof
against certain attacks ask yourselves why you were using a system
that was never designed to meet those requirements.

Oh thats right, the WebPKI is the only open PKI that has ever been
deployed and become ubiquitous. Plenty of folk had much better ideas
about how to make much more capable systems than I ever did. Which is
of course why you have all been using them for the past decade.