[144410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?=)
Sun Sep 11 11:56:15 2011
From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:55:43 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGQHz9bG8vT8Ux4=Dm3PssdRUzPgKF94rLRUC37MFhDivQ@mail.gmail.com>
(Cameron Byrne's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:49:33 -0700")
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> writes:
> Yep. The CA business is one of trust. If the CA is not trusted, they are =
out
> of business.
You can rewrite that: Trust is the CA business. Trust has a price. If
the CA is not trusted, the price increases.
Yes, they may end up out of business because of that price jump, but you
should not neglect the fact that trust is for sale here.
Bj=C3=B8rn
