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Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Fri Dec 05 12:29:54 2003
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:33 CST, Adi Linden said:
> > So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert
> > doesn't provide?
>
> No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate.
"Pay us $1,000 or we'll annoy your users with popups".
Sounds suspiciously like the extortion angle used recently against somebody who
was using Windows Messenger pop-op spam to advertise their "stop pop-up spam"
product.
I'm however missing the actual security angle (remember that the lack of a
warning doesn't mean you actually connected securely with who you thought you
did).
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