[144425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damian Menscher)
Sun Sep 11 19:24:48 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbWj+CDFa6sYe+3fVfNtRLzBo8mz819xKRDoy9Sug-XYMw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Damian Menscher <damian@google.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:23:29 -0700
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Damian Menscher <damian@google.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Because of that lost trust, any cross-signed cert would likely be revok=
ed
> by
> > the browsers. It would also make the browser vendors question whether
> the
>
> I am not engaging in speculation that DigiNotar plans to continue to
> operate, they have already stated so much.
>
> http://www.vasco.com/company/press_room/news_archive/2011/news_diginotar_=
reports_security_incident.aspx
> "VASCO does not expect that the DigiNotar security incident will have
> a significant impact on the company=92s future revenue or business
> plans."
>
I think you are misinterpreting that statement -- I interpret it as meaning
VASCO will continue to exist, and possibly buy another root CA to continue
their business plans. (They had only recently acquired DigiNotar.)
Damian
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Damian Menscher :: Security Reliability Engineer :: Google
