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


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