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

On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:19 52PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote:

One could argue that you could try something like the facebook model (or facebook itself). I can see it coming. Facebook web of trust app ;-)

Except, of course, for the fact that people tend to have hundreds of "friends", many of whom they don't know at all, and who achieved that status simply by asking. You need a much stronger notion of interaction, to say nothing of what the malware in your "friends'" computers are doing to simulate such interaction. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb