On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM, M.R. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16/09/11 09:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> The problem is that people will probably die >> due Digitar's failure. > > I am not the one to defend DigiNotar, but I would not make such > dramatic assumption. > > No one actively working against a government that is known to engage > in extra-legal killings will trust SSL secured e-mail to protect him > or her from the government surveillance. If this particular case, if > the most often repeated hypothesis of who did it and why is correct, > it was probably done for some bottom net-fishing and will likely result > with a whole bunch of "little people" with secret files that will make > them "second-class" citizens for a long, long time, ineligible for > government jobs and similar. (For instance, I'd expect them to end up > on some oriental no-fly list). Sorry to go offlist....
I hope you are right. But in a country where dissidents and homosexuals are put to death, my hopes are not high. Jeff _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
