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Re: towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Thu Aug 26 12:02:03 2010
From: dan@geer.org
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:31:10 EDT."
<4C756F7E.5050501@garlic.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:38:19 -0400
>
> as previously mentioned, somewhere back behind everything else ... there
> is strong financial motivation in the sale of the SSL domain name digital
> certificates.
>
While I am *not* arguing that point, per se, if having a
better solution would require, or would have required, no
more investment than the accumulated profits in the sale
of SSL domain name certs, we could have solved this by now.
--dan
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