Re: [cryptography] GeoTrust Launches GeoRoot; Allows Organizations with Their Own Certificate Authority (CA) to Chain to GeoTrust's Ubiquitous Public Root

2015-04-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:25 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: So does this mean Iran the like can stop hacking CAs and buy their own Geotrust cert to MITM their population? Yeah, its been around for a while. What's surprising is (or maybe not) is the CA is still not constraining the

Re: [cryptography] GeoTrust Launches GeoRoot; Allows Organizations with Their Own Certificate Authority (CA) to Chain to GeoTrust's Ubiquitous Public Root

2015-04-06 Thread Peter Bowen
I think that press release is years old. GeoTrust was bought by VeriSign years ago who was then bought by Symantec. This kind of agreement now requires the subordinate to be audited to the same standards as all other public CAs. On Apr 5, 2015 3:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [cryptography] GeoTrust Launches GeoRoot; Allows Organizations with Their Own Certificate Authority (CA) to Chain to GeoTrust's Ubiquitous Public Root

2015-04-06 Thread shawn wilson
Good catch - it would seem 10 years old to be exact: http://www.hostreview.com/news/050215geotrust.html On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Peter Bowen pzbo...@gmail.com wrote: I think that press release is years old. GeoTrust was bought by VeriSign years ago who was then bought by Symantec.

[cryptography] GeoTrust Launches GeoRoot; Allows Organizations with Their Own Certificate Authority (CA) to Chain to GeoTrust's Ubiquitous Public Root

2015-04-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/geotrust-launches-georoot-allows-organizations-with-their-own-certificate-authority-ca-to-chain-to-geotrusts-ubiquitous-public-root-54048807.html It appears Google's Internet Authority G2 (https://pki.google.com) could be part of this program since the

Re: [cryptography] GeoTrust Launches GeoRoot; Allows Organizations with Their Own Certificate Authority (CA) to Chain to GeoTrust's Ubiquitous Public Root

2015-04-05 Thread ITechGeek
So does this mean Iran the like can stop hacking CAs and buy their own Geotrust cert to MITM their population? --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: