Re: [cryptography] The Trouble with Certificate Transparency

2014-09-26 Thread Greg
Dear Nicolai, On Sep 25, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Nicolai nicolai-cryptogra...@chocolatine.org wrote: It seems to me that CT could benefit security only in a trickle down sense: if a cert is improperly issued against a major domain like google.com, that CA can be punished by Chromium/Chrome, with

Re: [cryptography] The Trouble with Certificate Transparency

2014-09-26 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Greg wrote: But what about normal people?  I have to check up to 1000 different logs to see if I've been attacked?  And if I find out that's the case, would people care about little old me enough to burn a CA such as Comodo? It seems CT could

Re: [cryptography] The Trouble with Certificate Transparency

2014-09-26 Thread James A. Donald
I don't know how google proposes to do it. I don't find their explanation entirely clear. Here is how I would do it. It guarantees that everyone sees the same information, and any attempt to tell two different stories immediately gets caught. There will be a mapping between strings and