On 2013-01-26 8:31 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Since there isn't a strong list moderator here, I gotta ask: is this (and
similar PKIX-is-broken threads) on-topic for this mailing list? Regardless of
how much I agree with the sentiment, it seems to have nothing to do with
cryptography. Maybe someone should set up a post-pki mailing list for such
threads? (Or maybe I should be less cranky?)
Political solutions for PKI problems, such as bonding CAs seem obviously
off topic for me.
But PKI problems are obviously on topic. Most security problems occur
at the interface between people and algorithms. User interface is the
hard problem of encryption.
So a people related security problem is on topic, and some solutions to
that problem are on topic, and some are off topic. The more the
proposed solution is people dealing with people, the less it is on
topic, and the more the proposed solution is people dealing with
computers, the more it is on topic.
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