..on Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 04:03:48PM -0300, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > Julian Oliver <[email protected]> writes: > > His Convergence project is certainly worth a look, too: > > > > http://convergence.io/ > > > > Shame it didn't catch on. AFAIK it needs a certain critical mass of 'Trust > > Notaries'. > > afaict it was a fork of perspectives and perspectives is alive :) > > http://perspectives-project.org/ > > Perspectives is a new approach to helping computers communicate > securely on the Internet. With Perspectives, public “network > notary” servers regularly monitor the SSL certificates used by > 100,000s+ websites to help your browser detect “man-in-the-middle” > attacks without relying on certificate authorities. > > Because anyone can run a network notary server, you get to choose > who you trust to validate SSL certificates, a powerful concept > indeed! You can try it out using our Firefox Extension.
Ahah ;) /me reads... -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org PGP key: https://julianoliver.com/key.asc Beware the auto-complete life. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
