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- Subject: [Discuss] root CA bloat
- From: abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:22:11 -0500
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Replacing X.509 requires that every site you want to visit switch away from X.509 as well. Convincing the whole world to embrace a crypto flag day is an enormously bigger task than bolting kludges onto an established standard. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/23/2014 7:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > >> The extension provides a dialog where you configure which factors to >> consider and how to weigh them, with reasonable defaults to get you >> started. >> > > What I don't understand -- and maybe don't want to understand -- is why > you are jumping through hoops to bolt kludges onto X.509 instead of working > to replace X.509 with something that has verifiable trust baked in. > > -- > Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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