Gordon Tetlow <[email protected]> writes:
> Assertion of identity and encryption in transit are separate issues. I
> do agree that identity is fundamentally broken with the existing CA
> system. I’m more interested in preventing tampering of data in
> transit. HTTPS is an easy way to do that.

You can't have the latter without the former.  Assertion of identity is
the only protection against MITM eavesdropping or tampering.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
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