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[Discuss] Why the dislike of X.509?



> On 8/25/2014 3:55 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> No security can withstand privileged access.
>
> True, but with PKI and escrow a single attack can silently compromise
> the entire domain in one go.

*any* shared or distributed authority has the same issue.
>
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> Rich P.
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