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SSL and the Future of Authenticity 98

Posted by Soulskill from the laying-off-alice-and-bob dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There has been a growing tide of support for replacing SSL's Certificate Authorities with an alternative authentication mechanism. Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who has repeatedly published attacks against SSL, has written an in-depth piece about the questions we should be asking as we move forward, and urges strong caution about adopting DNSSEC for this task."
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SSL and the Future of Authenticity 98

Posted by Soulskill from the laying-off-alice-and-bob dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There has been a growing tide of support for replacing SSL's Certificate Authorities with an alternative authentication mechanism. Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who has repeatedly published attacks against SSL, has written an in-depth piece about the questions we should be asking as we move forward, and urges strong caution about adopting DNSSEC for this task."
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SSL and the Future of Authenticity 98

Posted by Soulskill from the laying-off-alice-and-bob dept.
An anonymous reader writes "There has been a growing tide of support for replacing SSL's Certificate Authorities with an alternative authentication mechanism. Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who has repeatedly published attacks against SSL, has written an in-depth piece about the questions we should be asking as we move forward, and urges strong caution about adopting DNSSEC for this task."

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