The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model
Dobbins, Roland
rdobbins at arbor.net
Fri Mar 25 13:25:49 UTC 2011
On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I can't see how a practice that is completely acceptable at the root certificate level is a danger so significant that state-secret-like
> treatment is called for once end-user certificates are involved.
Again, I don't know enough about what happened to form an opinion one way or another. I'm just setting forth some reasons which spring to mind for not announcing this immediately, that's all.
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