[Archive.is] Thread by @sleevi_: “It’s a real shame that CAs have gotten so high off their own supply, that they’ve become blind to the real problems they cause by p… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
On CAs: [Archive.is] Thread by @sleevi_: “It’s a real shame that CAs have gotten so high off their own supply, that they’ve become blind to the real problems they cause by promoting OV/EV. It’s almost as if they believe that 1988 had all the solutions, and we’ve been declining since then. Example: Let’s say we accept that organizational identity is a valuable component. Coupling it to TLS is terrible, because it encourages all the bad practices we see – such as making it hard to obtain or automate certificates, discouraging key rotation, extending cert lifetime […]”
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