On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Weikeng Chen <w...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Seems that recertifying the existing public key is kind of... non-standard > practice? > > What would be the benefit of "key continuity"?
Key continuity has proven to be a more desirable security property than random key changes. Clients can pin a server's public key and obtain assurances without relying on third parties. Certificate and public key pinning is the security control that revealed Dignotar's compromise in 2011. Public key pinning is a little easier in the mobile age because of short-lived certificates. Also see Peter Gutmann's Engineering Security, https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to "Crypto++ Users". More information about Crypto++ and this group is available at http://www.cryptopp.com and http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cryptopp-users. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Crypto++ Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cryptopp-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
