>> As far as I understand it, without an explicit whitelist nothing would
>> prevent CNNIC to backdate new certificates so that they would be
>> accepted. Is this right or am I missing something?
> 
> Well, if anyone detects them doing this, by e.g. scanning the internet,
> the consequences will be serious. I have no reason to believe that they
> would backdate certs but if they did, they would need to be very
> confident that no-one would notice. If I owned CNNIC, I would not be at
> all confident of this.

Is there really a way we could notice this? Other than a leak from an
employee at CNNIC...

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