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Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Mar 24 06:42:05 2011

To: "Dobbins\, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:41:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <EA84622E-7E28-47D9-A521-C4B3A2CD48FE@arbor.net> (Roland
	Dobbins's message of "Thu\, 24 Mar 2011 10\:28\:26 +0000")
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

* Roland Dobbins:

> A wider swathe of interested parties would know of their existence,
> and their existence would be officially confirmed, which would make
> them more valuable.

This is at odds with what happens in other contexts.  Disclosure
devalues information.

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