[Cryptography] distrusted root CA: WoSign

[Peter Gutmann]

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie> writes:

>I'm biased, but though EFF do fantastic work, I don't think they're that open
>in the sense most relevant here. That said, I think either your or Rich's
>postulated futures would be better than the status quo - which of those would
>be the "betterest" is probably moot however.

Yeah, the EFF was just the first thing that came to mind.  I realise it's a
bit of a gedanken experiment, but this is one situation where the "open"
process (anyone can join, so the vested interests are most strongly motivated
to do so) actually works against you.  You'd need something in the style of
the committee/board often set up by governments to discuss public-interest
issues with a fixed number of representatives of each segment on it.  I'm sure
this isn't the first time this problem has had to be solved in the field of
politics...

Peter.