On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 17:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Ian G wrote: > > > So, what happens now? As we all observe, there are two approaches to > > dealing with the collapse of faith of the PKI system: incremental fixes, > > and complete rewrite. > > We don't "all" observe that. Some of us observe a third, more likely > approach: nothing significant happens due to this event. The "collapse of > faith" is only among the security folks whose faith was never there in the > first place. A week after the event, who was talking about it other than > folks on these lists and lists like them?
Although the reference here is to "security circles", I'd take this article as evidence that the matter is carrying further: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/technology/hacker-rattles-internet-security-circles.html?hpw _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
