Problem with site certificate

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Dec 3 00:59:24 UTC 2008


CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

> It is a debatable point how much one can really trust these "trusted"
> certificate authorities. The "web of trust" model that PGP uses, for
> example, is probably more trustworthy than a central CA that does very
> little about verifying the identity of the applicant. 

I agree - but that just means that when you _don't_ see certificate 
errors for your bank, you need  to be careful.  When there _are_ errors, 
you need  to be _worried_.
-- 
derek





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