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[Discuss] [BLU/Officers] update instructions for key signing

Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> writes:

>  (b) closed intranet (no BYOD allowed) where one IT org controls both the
> desktops and the webservers, and you install the Corp private selfsigned CA
> key into IT release of IE/Edge, FF, Chrome.

The downside of this latter approach is that the IT org can then sign
certs for *ANY* other site and therefore intercept all HTTPS traffic
they wish to see.

-derek

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
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