On 2013-01-26 8:31 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Since there isn't a strong list moderator here, I gotta ask: is this (and
similar PKIX-is-broken threads) on-topic for this mailing list? Regardless of
how much I agree with the sentiment, it seems to have nothing to do with
cryptography. Maybe
Hi All,
Is there any bonding of CAs? Do any browsers or other relying parties
require it?
Recall the first thing Diginotar did upon its failure was declare
bankruptcy. I believe that likely relieved the company of most of its
fiduciary responsibilities laid out in it CPS.
Two things drop out:
On topic for the thread: I don't *think* there's currently any insurance
companies with special policies for CA:s. There might be about 600
organizations that can issue SSL certs according to EFF, but there's more
insurance companies than that in the world. Most of them probably don't
have many
On Jan 25, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Natanael natanae...@gmail.com wrote:
If somebody wants there to be a pure cryptography mailing list and separate
more generic one (like this one currently is), I think that person would have
to try starting a more strict crypto mailing list, because I don't think
I had the impression this list and its predecssor moderated (too heavily
IMO) by Perry were primarily about applied crypto. So you get to tolerate a
bit of applied crypto security stuff if you're interested in crypto theory
and vice versa. Seems healthy to me (cross informs both camps).
In
Peter Gutmann pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz [2013-01-25 17:04]:
I'd say it is. Despite the title, it's a general-purpose security list, the
logical successor to Perry's list for which the topic was anything Perry
finds interesting, so I'd say non-pure-crypto discussions are very much OK.
In fact a
Well, are there more people here who want a more strict crypto only list
than those who want a more generic one? Would we set stricter rules here,
or would there have to be a split? If there would be a split, are there
enough of those who want a stricter list to start a new list and keep it
going?
