[oss-security] Re: 0xdeadbeef comes of age: making keysteak with GnuPG

[flapflap]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On 10/10/2014 12:23 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On 10/10/2014 12:01 PM, David Leon Gil wrote:
>>>> (While I know that if a root CA were caught intentionally issuing an
>>>> MitM cert for keybase.io or pgp.mit.edu would face likely
>>>> delisting/bankruptcy.)
>> I'd like to believe that also, but i think that some of the members of
>> the CA cartel might be "too big to fail" in the current infrastructure.
>>  There's no chance that the CA will go bankrupt if they aren't delisted
>> (since the CA market is a lemon market), and every web site certified by
>> the bigger CAs has an incentive to argue against that CAs' delisting
>> (because it will break their web site).
> 
> And, even when we can burn a small CA, the larger organization often
> carries on unharmed:
> 
>   http://www.links.org/?p=1268
> 
> 	--dkg

if interested, see also
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Controversies
and about the first 12min of Moxie Marlinspike's talk (regarding COMODO)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA

~flapflap



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