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SSL and the Future of Authenticity

Posted by Soulskill on from the laying-off-alice-and-bob dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There has been a growing tide of support for replacing SSL's Certificate Authorities with an alternative authentication mechanism. Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who has repeatedly published attacks against SSL, has written an in-depth piece about the questions we should be asking as we move forward, and urges strong caution about adopting DNSSEC for this task."

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Texting one time pads is the ONLY SOLUTION.

  2. Re:The CAKE protocol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "CAKE" protocol you say?

    Liar.