The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

[smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)]

On Mar 26, 2011, at 12:21 12AM, Franck Martin wrote:

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> On 3/26/11 15:36 , "Joe Sniderman" <joseph.sniderman at thoroquel.org> wrote:
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>> On 03/25/2011 11:12 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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>>> On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:19 52PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote:
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>>>> One could argue that you could try something like the facebook
>>>> model (or facebook itself). I can see it coming. Facebook web of
>>>> trust app ;-)
>>>> 
>>> Except, of course, for the fact that people tend to have hundreds of
>>> "friends", many of whom they don't know at all, and who achieved that
>>> status simply by asking.  You need a much stronger notion of
>>> interaction, to say nothing of what the malware in your "friends'"
>>> computers are doing to simulate such interaction.
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>> Then again there are all the "friend us for a chance to win $prize"
>> gimmicks... not a far jump to "friend us, _with trust bits enabled_ for
>> a chance to win $prize"
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>> Yeah sounds like a wonderful idea. :P
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> Wasn't PGP based on a web of trust too?
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Yes -- see Valdis' posting on that: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034651.html


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb