Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:19:02 +0200
From: Reindl Harald <h.reindl@...lounge.net>
To: sebb@...b767.de, Árpád Magosányi
 <mag@...was.rulez.org>
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] end of useable crypto in browsers?



Am 14.04.2016 um 00:54 schrieb Sebastian:
>> The browser developers have just decided that the trust relationship
>> architecture of the virtual world will be driven by the copyright
>> dinosaurs  from now on, by pulling off platform support from under those
>> who were experimenting with building meaningful trust models with the
>> admittedly few tools we already had.
>> [...]
>> The sociological and political fabric of society fundamentally depends
>> on our communication abilities. The future of our communication
>> abilities in turn depends on the communication platforms and the trust
>> relation models they support.
>
> That's true. But the keygen element is flawed by the known-broken CA
> system(*) and you can't build a secure house on a broken foundation. You
> could check whether the certificate for your site is issued by your CA,
> but if the can issue certificates they could simply attack your browsers
> updater. Our only hope for truly secure communication are tools like pgp
> combined with anonymity through for example TOR or freenet (not the ISP)

how do you come to the conclusion that you need any 3rd party CA for a 
client certificate which you accept on your server?




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