begin  quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:38:49AM -0800:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:20:35PM -0800, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> > Whom do you trust? Not a trivial problem, is it?
> 
> Well then I'm not sure our flawed universal PKI system has accomplished
> *anything* !!!

It generated a lot of code and a number of papers. :)

> If you *don't* use PKI (SSL) then you have certain vulnerabilities.
> 
> If you use our current flawed universal PKI (SSL) system then you have
> different vulnerabilities.
> 
> Either way you have vulnerabilities.  So what has PKI / SSL done for us?

Made the attackers spend a lot more energy, time, and money in order to
attack us.

There is no panacea, only mitigation.

-- 
_ |\_
 \|


-- 
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list

Reply via email to