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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