Re: [twsocket] [OT] Re: SSL broken?

2011-03-26 Thread Arno Garrels
Tobias Rapp wrote: > I guess the centralized trust model of SSL has been a known problem > for ages. Don't understand why they try to make so much noise about > it now. Probably because it was a Government attack, those fraudulent certificates have been already rejected. But wait ICS currently

[twsocket] [OT] Re: SSL broken?

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Rapp
I guess the centralized trust model of SSL has been a known problem for ages. Don't understand why they try to make so much noise about it now. IMO the problem of the alternative model (web of trust) is that it lacks the "cash cow" properties and thus is less appealing to certificate authorities.