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Re: CAs for spies?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri May 28 09:06:56 2004

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, smb@research.att.com
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:15 +1200

Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:

>Have you ever wondered what CA a spy agency would trust?  In the case of the
>Mossad, it's Thawte.

Minor nitpick: That should really be phrased as "Have you ever wondered what
CA a spy agency would select to make the browser warning dialogs go away?".

Peter.

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