Best Practices

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sun Dec 12 21:51:10 CET 2010


On 12/12/2010 3:03 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> what do you mean by "V4 certificate checksums"?

Read the RFC.  It's in there, and does a better job than I can do of
explaining it.  Section 5.5.3.

> yeah, this is serious, but it's not embedded in the certificate.  if we
> were to come up with a new fingerprint format, it would not invalidate
> any existing certificates -- it would just change how we refer to them.

I am very skeptical of this claim you seem to be making, that we can
just upgrade-in-place.


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