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Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates
- Subject: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:37:36 -0400
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:09 MDT." <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:09 MDT, Keith Medcalf said:
> The current system provides no more authentication or confidentiality
> than if everyone simply used self-signed certificates.
Not strictly true. The current system at least gives you "you have reached
the hostname your browser tried to reach". A self-signed cert doesn't
even give you that.
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